| I still hear my father, Salvatore Riotta, explaining electrical engineering to his students. A converter, he would say, permits two different systems to exchange energy without forcing them to become identical. The voltage changes, the current passes, and the machines work. That old lesson comes back to me when I think about China and Europe. We will not erase our different histories, institutions or political cultures, nor should we try. What we need is an international converter: a media culture capable of carrying facts and ideas across those differences without overheating the system |
