The Great Man Theory of History - Is It True?

Siha: Through innovation, a lot of this automation that happens is highly democratizing its democratic consumption. We tend to do as a species as we progress is to become more specialized in what we produce but more and more diversified in what we consume. This ties back into the great man or great woman theory of history. The one reconciliation that i came up with is that it does take great people to move the world forward, but it doesn't naturally take that specific great person. Although we needed edison to create the light bulb, there were twenty one other people creating the light bulb around the same time. So it's not that there's one individual at any given time who can do...