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Most Interesting Person Alive?
In the age of George Bush and Paris Hilton, here is someone actually worth paying attention to. 15 years ago today, he gave the world a present that would change things forever. His name is Tim Berners-Lee, and here is his website, (check out the second paragraph of his bio):
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ Here is his blog, which Todd (NS) or one of the other tech-savvy dudes here will have to translate for me: http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/blog/4 Whatever school system produced this guy needs to be brought here tout-suite, and anyone who can't keep up gets shuffled to trade school or prison. 
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Here, I'll save some Republican the trouble:
"You mean it wasn't Al Gore??" Nyuk, nyuk...  
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Re: Most Interesting Person Alive?
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Arthur C. Clarke is who Id like to meet
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No, no, no, Al Gore invented the Internet, this guy just invented the Web (the Web rides 'on' the Internet) 
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Arthur C. Clarke has been a hero of mine practically my entire life... but Hawking is someone that is almost mythical. Amazing person.
But I will say, as much as I used to dislike Bill Gates, he is getting more and more of my admiration every day. He's doing good things these days. |
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I agree that the US system should be changing to get people out of highschool who don't want to be there. And educate those who want an education.
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I may be out on a limb here, ME?!?
What...? Nevermind. KT
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But the guy who impresses the hell out of me is Ted Nelson. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson His idea of a worldwide network connecting personal computers was a bit ahead of its time in 1960.
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+1 for Vinton Cerf. Robert Metcalfe was also pretty instrumental.
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