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There’s Much We Need To Understand — The Sooner The Better
From money to technology, stuff that we use every day and that we have no idea how they actually work…
We wake up, we check our phone, open an application, close another one, send a message, watch a video, put our wireless earphones on, press play, make breakfast while listening to music that is handpicked for us with astonishing precision, better than we could do it ourselves.
We go to the shop, we exchange a piece of paper for bunch of products that have been shipped from the most remote locations, walk to a cash machine, insert a plastic card, get more bills out, check our balance on our phone, pay a bill in a different currency, the exchange rate updated in real time.
If we are honest, we don’t really understand how most of it works. Most of us don’t even know how electricity works! We know that by plugging one end of a cable to a socket and the other end to a device, electricity feeds it, but how does it actually work? Where does it come from? Where is it stored? What about the internet?
And money? We know we need it, we know we want it, but what does it really mean? Who makes it? Why does it change in value? Why are there so many currencies? The truth is that money rules our lives and that…