"...history [is] a chess game in which there are many fewer moves available than appears to be the case. The better player you are, the more you see the weakness of moves, and the number of moves shrinks to a very few."

-George Friedman, The next 100 years

Great Ideas List

To do: Create a list of great ideas that have changed human living standards and increased. Write little blurbs explaining each. Create Categories (Transportation, Communication, Idea Dissemination.

-Ships (Caravel)
-Libraries (Ben Franklin in the US)
-Democracy (Hobbes, Hegel, Locke, Rousseau...)
-Anti-biotics (Pasteur, others...)
-Electric Generation (...Edison...)
-Automobile
-Airplanes/Helicopters
-The Telephone (...)
-Computer
-Home computer
-Internet
-The cellphone
-Social Media