" The coalescence of the kingdom of numbers with the kingdom of machines has been incubating for over three hundred years. By the time Erasmus Darwin began experimenting with the effects of electrochemical signals conveyed through his patients’ twitching nerves, the essential principles of electromagnetic telecommunications had already been conceived. The results include not only human communications at a distance, and the local replication and preservation of data over time, but human communication with machines and, increasingly, communication among machines themselves. "

― George Dyson , Darwin Among The Machines: The Evolution Of Global Intelligence