There are 6 ‘killer apps’ that set the West apart from the rest: competition, the scientific revolution, property rights, modern medicine, the consumer society, the work ethic. — Niall Ferguson, author of The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World and the six-part BBC series of the same name, free to watch online in its entirety. via curiositycounts.com
Huh. Yeah. I can see it.
Somewhere in this mix, this list of six, is the idea of 'freedom'. It's an idea not an ap. I'm not going to get all constitutional conservative on you or wave the don't tread on me flag. Nor am I going all University of Chicago/Milton Friedman on you either.
But I think the foundation for these six killer aps, their operating system if you will, is freedom. Freedom with a heaping dose of responsibility and accountability.
I'm good with that at this point.
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