Your general point makes sense: it’s true that 150 years ago news was more local. But thanks to the telegraph and train even local news contained wider affairs

Your general point makes sense: it’s true that 150 years ago news was more local. But thanks to the telegraph and train even local news contained wider affairs. And as I put in my comment, the Chicago building was famous — world famous in fact. It was a technological phenomenon like the telephone. And an architect of large buildings couldn’t have not heard about it any more than a programmer not have heard of an LLM today.