Interestingly, in this final story, Faulks also appears to poke fun at his own idea of the interconnectedness of his stories.
The very occasional cross-pollination of characters and objects just seems gimmicky and clunky, while the theme is so tenuous and vague (the old Buddhist idea of "the interconnectedness of all things") that it could be said to run through every story ever written about anyone at any time.
So that role of the government has been very educational for me — the whole idea of the interconnectedness between technology, finance, business, markets and policies, and how policies can align the incentives so that things can move quickly between early technologies and markets.
Being overseas and being immersed in war news of a half-dozen different ideological flavors became a kind of family adventure in edutainment: for us parochial and solipsistic Americans, the idea of global interconnectedness seemed, at this moment in this place, a very real thing.
It speaks of "interconnectedness" and "diffuse power".
It all had a logic of interconnectedness".
This exaltation of feelings of interconnectedness is questionable on two counts.
And in difficult times, this kind of interconnectedness can be strangely comforting.
They enhance a sense of interconnectedness of all lives.
They created a physical system of interconnectedness around the world.
