For example, why should you stand in line to order at a coffee shop when the shop already knows that you always order a medium vanilla latte?

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And being able to have a vanilla latte no matter where you are on Earth, will bring us closer to world peace than any treaty, protest or governmental policy ever has.

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These love to pretend that they live in one of the world's toughest urban jungles, beset by warring gangs and malevolent Nature, when, in reality, the biggest danger they face is that the person behind the counter at Starbucks might mis-hear their order for a double tall, decaf, non-fat latte with a vanilla shot and make their coffee with full-fat milk by mistake.

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