Plenty of politicians and artists in Time’s annual list of 100 most influential people in the world, but I was impressed with how many scientists and technologists show up in the list. The other nice thing is influential folks write about the nominees in the list – so Bono writes about Jonathan Ive of Apple, and Richard Branson writes about Elon Musk, even as they compete for space travel business.
The science/tech nominees are:
- Oh-Hyun Kwon, Samsung
- Kevin Systrom, Instagram
- Ren Zhengfei, Huawei
- Markus Persson and Jens Bergensten, Minecraft
- Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX
- Sam Yagan, Match.com
- David Einhorn,, Greenlight Capital, activist investor in Apple and others
- Ted Sarandos, Netflix
- Sheryl Sandberg, Google
- Linus Torvalds, Linux
- Jonathan Ive, Apple
- Marissa Mayer, Yahoo!
- Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, Coursera
- Perry Chen, Kickstarter
- Roya Mahboob, Afghan Citadel Software
- Jared Cohen, Google ideas
- Don Yeomans, NASA
- Christopher Fabian and Erica Kochi, UNICEF
- Kai-Fu Lee, Innovation Works (incubator for Chinese startups)
- Peter Theisinger and Richard Cook, NASA (Mars explorer)
And even in the others you see plenty of technology with Jay Z’s ventures, Wang Shu who is blazing new architecture trails, and even Bryan Cranston in his role on Breaking Bad
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