The stories of people and groups of people (companies, governments, organizations, universities, etc.) can be told by displaying their actions, creations and expressions (ACEs) over time. These ACEs can be tagged with topics. For example Albert Einstein creating the theory of relativity can be tagged to Theoretical Physics and Scientific Breakthroughs. These ACEs also receive a significance (1 to 5) to each person involved and all the relevant topics.

Using this system you can efficiently understand the history of any person, group of people or topic through time.

Here's an idea of what it would look like: http://narrat.org/#!/Paul-Graham

What do you guys think about this idea? Is wikipedia really the best we can do to quickly understand the history of something?