Standards accepted globally are positive for society. One for money might be useful.
Digital timing notation was invented to coordinate singing different voice parts. Within a century came better timing machines: mechanical clocks & hourglasses. https://www.amazon.com/Measure-Reality-Quantification-Western-1250-1600-ebook/dp/B00GA22IJS … http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/CDROM/Literature/LOTwinterschool2006/szabo.best.vwh.net/synch.html … Cities that installed clocks early grew faster. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2652782 …
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Was very interesting to read, in Sapiens, that live radio broadcasts of Big Ben (for timing/clock synchronization) allowed the Luftwaffe to predict London weather for air raids. Thus, the Brits later recorded and replayed the chime.
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