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Bill Gates
Martin Luther King
I’m not even sure that’s the most meaningful list. But almost everything
about the world today—from borders to technology to social norms—would
be different if these seven people hadn’t left their mark. Another way to put
this is that 0.00000000004% of people were responsible for perhaps the
majority of the world’s direction over the last century.
The same goes for projects, innovations, and events. Imagine the last
century without:
The Great Depression
World War II
The Manhattan Project
Vaccines
Antibiotics
