A few years ago, I was standing in Times Square in New York City, there on a vacation trip.
As I looked around, at the skyscrapers and giant display screens, at the crowds of tourists and well-dressed business people hustling by, as the cacophony of car horns, street musicians, motors, construction equipment (they’re always building or repairing in NYC) roared around me, it hit me how this was really a world away from what I…