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Lee Benson writes: As marvelous as computers and all things high tech are in our day and age, during the more than 20 years he spent in operations — helping companies run as efficiently as possible — an old-school problem became increasingly aware to Afu Taumoepeau:

A lot of important information gets lost in high tech.

Through years of trial and error and refinement, Afu and his lead software engineer, Sean Woodwood, created a system that captures best practices in an OP (not an app) connected to URLs deployable in many ways, including QR codes — creating concise, cutting-edge information that is available in real time at the touch of a finger.

Standing next to Afu in his office in the VirnetX building in Farmington (VirnetX is an investor in OP Media Inc.) is the reason he has the confidence that his pursuit of the American dream will be successful: his father, Eddie Taumoepeau.

Read more about Afu Taumoepeau’s innovation and Eddie Taumoepeau’s pioneering example.

Perspective: What if the stakes of this election are not as high as everyone seems to think?

Cliff Smith writes: No country lasts forever in its present state. Governments fall, constitutions are altered or abolished, boundaries are redrawn, and wars, famines, natural disasters and shifting demographics constantly change the nature of what a country is. Thus, in any country that gives itself over to the great experiment in self-government, at some point, there’s a risk that people will have voted in their last free and fair election or they have put their country in such a state of terminal decline that it will never recover.

The election in the U.S. in 2024 is almost certainly not such an election.

Saying this is necessary because a certain mindset seems to have taken root in the collective mindset of both Trump and Harris supporters that if their candidate does not win, all is lost. Indeed, this mindset even stretches to certain “double haters” that refuse to identify with any candidate for president.

Read more about the stakes of the 2024 election.

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FROM BYU 1984 MAGAZINE

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