If you one starts to look at the things we do as a classification, then it gets very messy very fast.<p>I work on magic boxes all day and construct intangible realities that spit out numbers. Am I still the same group as a member of a tribe untouched by modern civilization in the depths of the Amazon?<p>What about the same group as Kelly Johnson? Tim Berners-Lee? Vint Cerf? Jack Kilby or Robert Noyce? GalileoPascalNewtonFranklinEulerFourierMaxwellCurie? MandelaDeKlerkMLKGandi?<p>It seems pretty presumptuous to say &quot;we (as a pan-global diaspora) have achieved great things, therefore we are all special.&quot;