He talks about how each event in the human history that transpired that led to what we are today. Balaji Vishwanathan is a founder of a Robotics company-Invento (Humanoid Robots for customer interaction) and a top Quora writer.Till date, he has answered more than 1300 questions revolving around 48 topics. He has over 339k followers and 216.9 m answer views. The computer engineer from Tiruchirappalli, he did a MS in Computer Science from Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County. He did his thesis on Multiagent Systems – that combined economics & computer science. But he didn’t finish his PhD since he couldn’t refuse a tempting offer from Microsoft. He tried his hands on multiple things such as building a virtual university – NalandaU,Starting up Agni, magazine to connect Indian entrepreneurs and running social media and inbound marketing campaigns for small businesses and developing inbound marketing strategies for politicians. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx