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"It is an extraordinary era in which we live. It is altogether new. The world has seen nothing like it before. I will not pretend, no one can pretend, to discern then end; but every body knows that the age is remarkable for scientific research into the heavens, the earth, and what is beneath the earth; and perhaps more remarkable still for the application of this scientific research to the pursuits of life. The ancients saw nothing like it. The moderns have seen nothing like it till the present generation…

We see the ocean navigated and the solid land traversed by steam power, and intelligence communicated by electricity. Truly this is almost a miraculous era. What is before us, no one can say, what is upon us, no one can hardly realize. The progress of this age has almost outstripped human belief; the future is known only to Omniscisence."

Daniel Webster, 1847

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[Harold Jarche]

It's interesting that Webster was remarking on the same phenomenon we face: electrification. We are now 160 years into the age when the printed word became digital, first as dots & dashes and now as zeros and ones. In about 140 years it will be over. That's when nobody will remember anybody who remembers the pre-electric age. Of course, it's all dependent on having reliable energy sources ;)