Here was a constellation of winking fireflies stretching to infinity. Here was an immense electronic silence. In the endless, glowing dark was Tangier and London, Macao and Capri and Beirut, El Quederef and Château-Chinon and Wounded Knee. From these caverns leapt the motive force of a dispensary in Chemnitz, a glasshouse in Shropshire, a callbox in Billings, Montana….This vast mountain brain sent its signals along Earth’s nervous system to the distant places, the villages, towns and cities, bringing order out of disorder, calmness out of confusion. They beheld the world.
Great description.
