Citizen Engineers
Writing about Tim Berners-Lee together with the fact that today is the anniversary of the Wright brothers' inaugural flight conjures up this thought in my mind of the citizen engineer: a person who goes beyond the normal patterns and responsibility of life in order to build something, and although this sounds grandiose you can't come to any other conclusion when considereing things like air flight or the internet, for the betterment of people.
Where would we be if everyone approached life with the minimalist attitude of doing the least amount necessary to get on? Where there was no excitement of a new idea, a progression, of change?
I have to admit that the wind is knocked out of my sails quite often but on days like this I am aware that the engineers always win: our world is malleable to their ideas, and the technology forces us to change.
8:18:16 PM 
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