What is the one idea at work which is more powerful than any other?

One of the things I love about my website is that it as much for me as for anyone else. For example, I have over 750 quotations on my site that I have collected over the last 20 years. Not any old quotes, but ones that personally move and inspire me and I wish to share with others.

They are posted on my site, you can subscribe to a quote of the day by email, by RSS feed or through Twitter.

I also post a quote of the day on most pages of my website and this is the one I noticed for today:

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Credit: Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) English Philosopher

And it set me to thinking. What is that one idea at work today that is more powerful than any other? And wouldn't that make a great topic for a Knowledge Cafe. I must do it!

But this is the joy for me. Francis Bacon has provoked me to think about this but he has been dead almost 400 years! Another man that hugely inspires me is Henry David Thoreau but that's another story.