There are certain basic proceses, tools and inventions which have had such a significant influence on the lives of human beings that they can be said to have changed the world. Ideas that Changed the World answers those questions. Based on a book by Philip Wilkinson and the renowned illustrator Robert Ingpen, it places significant advances in the context of their time, showing how they influenced and challenged each other.
Ideas are the testaments of change.
Understand how ideas have shaped the present and you will understand how ideas will change the future. We're at the dawn of a new millennium. Not just a revolution but a whole new way of thinking. A whole new way of living. We are no longer walking into the future - we are spiraling.