[hmart]

In The Aleph, Borges predicts the internet : "... Carlos Argentino tasted it, pronounced it “interesting,” and, after a few drinks, launched into a glorification of modern man. “I view him,” he said with a certain unaccountable excitement, “in his inner sanctum, as though in his castle tower, supplied with telephones, telegraphs, phonographs, wireless sets, motion-picture screens, slide projectors, glossaries, timetables, handbooks, bulletins...” He remarked that for a man so equipped, actual travel was superfluous. Our twentieth century had inverted the story of Mohammed and the mountain; nowadays, the mountain came to the modern Mohammed."

[pohl]

Plot twist: now he's entirely disinterested in the mountain now that it gives itself so freely.