“The latest technological breakthroughs can sometimes seem to emerge from nameless, faceless companies,” Lisa Eadicicco, Alex Fitzpatrick, Matt Peckham, and John Patrick Pullen write for TIME Magazine. “But behind every corporate logo are individual people shaping the future.”
“Some are executives, others are programmers or researchers chasing world-changing achievements,” Eadicicco, Fitzpatrick, Peckham, and Pullen write. “Then there are the rule-makers, whose decisions can have far-reaching consequences for the future. The 20 people on this list are the most influential people in the technology world right now, as extensively debated by TIME’s tech team.”
TIME’s Top 5:
1. Elon Musk
2. Jeff Bezos
3. Mark Zuckerberg
4. Tim Cook: As CEO of Apple, one of the world’s most valuable brands, Tim Cook has nearly unmatched influence over the technology world. Anything Apple does is bound to be copied by a seemingly endless number of rivals, meaning his choices will reverberate far beyond One Infinite Loop. Today, Apple is rumored to be experimenting with everything from advanced artificial intelligence to augmented reality and self-driving vehicles. Given Apple’s role as tastemaker extraordinaire, how Cook decides to move forward with any one of these projects will shape the future of the consumer technology landscape.
5. Sundar Pichai
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MacDailyNews Take: Already, we can hardly wait for Apple’s WWDC 2017 next month!
All I can say is Technology must be going down the pan. The only influence Cook has, is to send you to sleep while he goes endlessly on about the great products that are always coming tomorrow, or in his case more likely next year and then a bit.
Botvinnik’s Least Influential Magazines:
1. Time
2. Caracas Business Review
3. Islam Charity Monthly
4. The Worker
5. KKK Today
Careful. Influence is less relevant when you’re already there….
yeah, whatever that means.
You know what it means, you’re not stupid, but let me explain.
Hyupothetically speaking… if you’re already the Grand Wizard, KKK today will influence you? Spicer’s said briefing will more so.
Spicer’s Daily Briefing…
The most influential phrase because it annoys and irritates: “We have great things coming down the pipeline.”
Apparently the criteria has changed for the influential adding the virtue of napping often, ignoring user’s needs and letting vital products languish while giving verbal assurances something great is coming that should’ve come out a year before.