Hacker Noon October 17, 2019
Interoperability is a characteristic of a product or system, whose interfaces are completely understood, to work with other products or systems, at present or in the future, in either implementation or access, without any restrictions. – Wikipedia
Imagine if you couldn’t connect to the Internet, but only be able to participate in local intranets with the people in your neighborhood and be forced to only enjoy very limited content and only the pleasant online company of your neighbor uncle Bob among few others instead of the entire world.
Or if every bank was operating each their own private payment network, which doesn’t anyhow communicate with the others, so you could only pay to merchants who chose your bank private network...