"Before the introduction of the telegraph, information travelled as did any other traded commodity. It moved along with the cargo, and though not usually bulky, its speed was limited to that of the fastest mode of travel of the day."

Das vergisst man ja immer wieder gerne, dass die Telekommunikationsrevolution mit dem Telegraphen anfing und nicht mit dem Internet.

Nachweis: Byron Lew und Bruce Cater: »The telegraph, co-ordination of tramp shipping, and growth in world trade, 1870-1910«, European Review of Economic History 10 (2006), S. 147-173. Sie zitieren Gregroy Clark und Robert Feenstra, »Technology in the Great Divergence«, in: Michael Bordo, Alan Taylor und Jeffrey Williamson (Hg.), Globalization in Historical Perspective, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003, S. 277-314, hier: S. 293.