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Originally Posted by ebusinesstutor
Perhaps we need less great thinkers and more great "doers." 
Intellectual discourse is fine, but people who get out and make a difference change the world rather than hanging out in ivory towers and salons. |
I'm not sure anything has changed the world more than all of this thinking and discussion. The change hasn't always been good, but change rarely is. Most of the reason for the impact of this thinking is the immediate availability of the [mis]information for discussion and debate.
Greek philosophers held that the earth was round hundreds of years before Galileo, but their positions did not stand up to peer review. If only they had had blogs and forums to explain.