Simon Winchester Quote
The story of Krakatoa had a small beginning—seven newsworthy words, buried well down in the pages of a single London newspaper. As the summer of 1883 wore on, it was to become a very much greater story indeed. And when it was over, three months later, it was to have implications for society—for the laying of the foundations of McLuhan’s global village—that have reverberated in a far more important way, and for far, far longer, than anyone at the time could ever have supposed.
Simon Winchester
The story of Krakatoa had a small beginning—seven newsworthy words, buried well down in the pages of a single London newspaper. As the summer of 1883 wore on, it was to become a very much greater story indeed. And when it was over, three months later, it was to have implications for society—for the laying of the foundations of McLuhan’s global village—that have reverberated in a far more important way, and for far, far longer, than anyone at the time could ever have supposed.