(empo-tymshft) Sing along with me!

Once I was working on a project that I still cannot discuss, with a gentleman whose company I cannot discuss, and the gentleman observed that the project included contributions from a variety of geographical regions.

To which I observed from my Orange County location,

It's a small world after all.

Certainly the tools that we have at our disposal today have increased the speed of collaboration over large distances. Of course people were able to collaborate over large distances hundreds of years ago, but it took forever to do it.