Ten People Who Could Change The World

What does it take to produce a world-changing breakthrough? Humans try again and again to arrive at a formula. These days, the X-Prize Foundation sponsors competitions in areas such as space travel and genomics, with a mission, it says, "to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity." As far back as 1714, meanwhile, the British government pursued this same so-called "market approach" to sparking innovation, offering a king's ransom, ... Full Story »

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Marty Heyman
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by Marty Heyman - Oct. 1, 2008

The theory is that research and the creation of ideas can/will change the world. The execution of the story is OK except that it's totally US centric and dominated by biotech and computers. This is all well and good but the adoption lag in most of these areas of research is a generation or two. There are people doing work now to implement what we already know who are much more likely to change the world than these who are bright, clever, and still researching (and who may each, in some sad way, fail to live up to this hype).

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