When you go online and seamlessly connect to your Netflix account,
thank an engineer. When you use your smartphone’s GPS to steer you
effortlessly to a new restaurant, ditto.
Invisibly, engineers have bound together the world in many ways. Key
to this world-changing effort were elegant standards, developed by
engineers from many countries and companies, who cooperatively chose
the best ideas, codified them and developed the technologies needed to
operate smoothly despite the language, culture and geographic
differences our Earth and its people present.
If only our global political leaders would take a page from this
astonishingly successful methodology. Perhaps we would now be sharing
our nations various strengths rather than trying to tear each other
down or even destroy the world we have finally learned to bring so
much closer to unity.
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