![Painting by Frederic Remington showing native americans generating a smoke signal; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth Painting by Frederic Remington showing native americans generating a smoke signal; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2078ef1-5d25-4342-beb0-55fbb260dfb1_1500x927.jpeg)
The first roads were little more than game trails. Early infrastructure focused more on stopping travel than facilitating it. With civilization, though, came a need to transport information, and history presents us with thousands of years of …
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