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"Is it a fact -- or have I dreamt it -- that by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? Rather, the round globe is a vast head, a brain, instinct with intelligence: or shall we say it is itself a thought, nothing but thought, and no longer the substance which we dreamed it." -- Nathaniel Hawthorne (b. 1804-07-04, d. 1864-05-19), The House of the Seven Gables, 1851