Okay, so Ferguson talks about the six 'killer apps' which I do agree upon on. First one was competition; there is competition everywhere in this present time. I guess it's just us humans like to be better than others and somehow bring the other one down! I kind of disagree with competition being only western thing, I mean, there was competition before the 'western side' was even colonized. For example, daimyos in Japan (couldn't think of any other example). Second killer app is the scientific revolution: I do agree with him about this; I believe this should be one of the top things because westerners did come up with a lot of things in science! Third app was property rights. I do agree with him about owning property, even though western method differed from the one in Latin America. Number four was Medicine!! Definitely a big one, though I kinda don't agree with western side being the top one behind the medicine! Ancient civilizations did use medicine.. I guess what he was trying to say was the population increased which led to more money and western side became more advanced! I'm not so sure if I agree with that. Fifth app was the consumer society: once again, I'm kind of not sure about this since I believe that it's not only west who traded and produced goods; there were others as well. And last one is work ethic which I do agree with.
Another thing he mentioned was that the Great Divergence is more political than geographical, which he proved it in his sense but if you go back in time, geography did play a major role with the success of the civilizations and even empires.
I actually liked this TED talk but one thing I noticed was that he is very full of himself! It also felt like he was taking 'west' side and saying westerners were the best and came up with everything.. you might disagree with that but hey, that's the way I felt like!
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