Real-world battles are rarely won by the ragtag team of underdogs. Tanks beat horses, guns beat spears. Though sometimes, the ewoks really do kick ass.
We're impressed by new gizmos, sure, but we tend to forget that even the most obvious, basic concepts had to be invented at some point. And some of them were shockingly recent.
Forget about Stephanie Meyer or JK Rowling or Stephen King--at the end of the day, they just write stories and make billions of dollars. No, the writers who really deserve a pat on the back are the ones who wrote completely fictional stories that, over time, were remembered as actual history.
We're not talking about being bad at matching faces with names here. Science has found that your memory is basically a pathological liar, making things up as it goes along.
