…Soren Kierkegaard had published his Concept of Dread. It was in 1844, the first year of the electric telegraph, to which he alludes in that work. And the message of Kierkegaard concerning the telegraph had only begun to reach us. The message was that all men are now totally involved, physically, in all mankind. Electric technology extends, not our bodies, but our nervous system, as an organic membrane of light and power and information, around the globe.