Simon Schama on how inoculation changed the world
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The Importance of Interconnectedness
I suppose it was my usual choice of understatement. You know, when something like this happens, there are no foreigners, there are only familiars, we are all absolutely connected. And the way in which ideas are shared is something we'll get into in a minute. What surprised me was your book features sort of case studies, kind of short, followings of certain people. A lot of them were completely unknown to me. I don't know if that's my particular ignorance or whether there's something to be said about the fact these people who played such a pivotal role in this story are now largely unknown. Do you think there is something to say about that?
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