Here's another video that coincides with this post. It an hour long and most of it is pretty boring tbh but i think from 20 min to 30 min is where the best info is. Overall I liked the video a lot.

It's called "ideas rule the world, not corporations" and it's about knowledge and how knowledge and people's ideas have helped us to progress. as well as how things are quickly progressing now as compared to before.

http://bigthink.com/floating-univers...r-corporations