Talk about speed!  A little more than 100 years ago – on October 10, 1913 – President Woodrow Wilson pushed a button in the White House. An electronic pulse raced over 2,000 miles of telegraph wire to Panama where it detonated an explosion in the Gamboa Dike flooding the Culebra Cut. The Panama Canal was suddenly operational.  Big deal, huh?  Well, it was. Before the Panama Canal, East Coast cargo took 66 days by ship to reach California. With the canal, California was 7,000 miles closer. Cargo rates dropped so Californians could buy more.  Yeah, it was a big deal. Then, now and a 100 years from now, speed of cargo delivery is still critical. You can communicate on an IPhone, pay your bills online, research on the web but if you want anything you can hold in your hand, it has to be delivered. In its day, the Panama Canal was as revolutionary then as hovercraft deliveries are today. Business only occurs when what you buy makes it to your doorstep. The only difference is today things are a bit faster. https://amzn.to/2PQ7JSX; https://youtu.be/xge4pK-MiMQ