Your best bet is to take a look at any old Country , like the UK , we have spent centuries building on top of , adding to , working around every element of our society ' s needs , what have other countries taken from that , well America took straight roads and subway systems to heart and did it very well , they totally ignored trains though and went with planes instead , also makes sense as it ' s a lot faster in such a large Country . They also have much better sewer and utility systems than ours , as we ' ve built on top of a couple hundred years of old systems , you got to avoid all our mistakes and could get right to doing it the best way from the start . I think Taiwan went straight to gigabit fibre , Africa is going the Solar route , Japan decided that the three sea shells was a bad idea and went straight to arse showers , China skipped glass entirely , Somalia decided to not bother with the trade company and went directly to pirate . I guess it ' s not always good to skip class , you might miss the point of the lesson , but generally it seems to work out .