My job involves administrating a research department with an interest in health. We have a working relationship with the Scottish health system.
Today I got information from the CIA, which I then passed on to a part of the Scottish health service.
It's the connection between the two, facilitated by the internet, which fascinates me, because they are such disparate entities. Somewhere in America, there's a little person who did the inputting of the data, which was then uploaded to the internet, which was then found by someone in Scotland, which was then downloaded, which I then passed on to a member of the health service to use[0].
Amazing. When you look at it like that, the world is a small place. But if I wanted to say thanks to the little person in America, the world suddenly expands again - being too low on the totem pole, their name won't be recorded anywhere. They'll never know how much their data improved my day.
[0] I know, it's an atrocious sentence. My inner English Teacher is cringing.
