In the past, economies ran on toll roads and railroads and pipelines that were physical.
—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
5 Oct. 2026
Those range from the macro-industrial such as aircraft parts and underwater pipelines to the micro-medical such as stents that prop open bodily channels for bodily fluids.
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