Response to Niall Ferguson's "The 6 killer apps of prosperity"

I feel that Niall Ferguson makes a very interesting argument on the end of the "great divergence", an event that started after the 1800s where western civilization presided grow more successful and prosperous than the rest of the world. It is a neat concept, which Ferguson uses, when he sums up the cause for the great divergence into six prim factors. The factors are essential in establishing a prosperous society. Ferguson called them the "six killer apps", and they are competition, the scientific revolution, property rights, modern medicine, the consumer society, and work ethic. He explains how throughout history Europeans have come up on top in comparison to the rest of the world because they had these six killer apps. According to Ferguson, the sequence, or rather programming of these apps are not really important, and likewise geography does not play a factor in western dominance. Due to intellectual levels being constantly being challenged and explored, European society has achieved it's sate of dominance, whereas in other parts of the world there has been either governmental, religious, or social restrictions that bound people from advancing via the six killer apps. For example, the ottomans destroyed a observatory because it was considered blasphemy to question gods domain, and China's confucian tests that determined a persons overall intellectual potential via the memorization of Confucian teachings, and many more. Although this may be, today, the tables have turned. Today, other parts of the world are able to do the same thing what Europeans did in the past and what western society is currently doing, at a much faster pace with better quality. Thus he derives the claim that the great divergence is over. In the end I want to say that I agree with what Niall Ferguson claims.