The 6 killer apps of Western civilization:

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The Enterprise Blog:

Henrik Temp
January 23, 2012

Check out this great TED talk, in which British historian Niall Ferguson explains his answer to the question of why Western civilization achieved such a clear dominance over the rest of the world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpv2hYO8C-4

The presentation is a summary of Ferguson’s book Civilization: The West and the Rest. I highly recommend reading it; it expands on the points from the TED talk and is thoroughly enjoyable. What I’d like to do here is investigate, one at a time, the state of the six “killer apps” in modern America.

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