TIME magazine traditionally published a list of the most outstanding people whose merits were noted in 2013. Especially for you, we have chosen the most active and honored, according to the magazine, world leaders - “Titans” - from the world of high technologies. Comments, by the way, are cited from the words of no less famous personalities - many of them are also familiar to you.
Elon Musk
Founder of SpaceX and Tesla. 41 years old.
“For a long time, the cosmos seemed dull. Space news has come down to budget cuts and satellite departures from orbits, not research and innovation. Then the private sector began designing spacecraft to send people and payloads to orbit and beyond. Today, teams like SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, reopen space for exploration.
I know something about building spaceships, starting with Virgin Galactic. It may seem that this made Elon Mask and me competitors, but in a sense, everything is exactly the opposite. We share the opinion that when you want to do something, you have to go and do it yourself - even if such self-activity in this case means involvement of all your well-being in such complex, cumbersome and incomprehensible industries that most people think that with them only the government of a particular state can be managed.
Whatever skeptics say about what cannot be done, Elon took and did. Remember the 90s, when we had to call strangers and give them our card numbers? Elon came up with a little thing called PayPal. His companies Tesla Motors and SolarCity make the clean sources of future renewable energy a reality. Paradoxically, Elon is working on improving our planet and at the same time building a spaceship to help us leave it. But true vision is binocular - and Elon Musk is the same person who can see many things at the same time. ”
Richard Branson, the founder of the company Virgin.
Sheryl Sandberg
COO company Facebook, 43 years
“Every movement for people's justice must eradicate the power of oppressing and enslaving the mind. This is especially difficult for women to do, because we live in the same house with the so-called strong sex, but we are not neighbors, not to mention the whole country. With her new organization and the book “Lean In,” Sheryl Sandberg confronts both external and internal obstacles to equality, which is one of the reasons for her misunderstanding of the world. Another reason is that she herself is successful. As for a woman who should be loved, she failed; as for the man she loves, she is very successful. This is what the gender police are talking about, and it is inhuman and unhappy for both men and women. Among her most radical statements is the fact that if a woman wants children, her most important career decision should be to choose a partner, and if a man wants children, he should also raise them. This could be the beginning of our liberation from the gender police forever. ”
Gloria Stein, feminist, journalist.
Marcus Persson and Jens Bergenshten
The developers of Minecraft, both of 33 years.
“I have an 8-year-old stepson, and everything I know about Minecraft, I learned from watching how he completely plunges into this world. He spends half of his time on the game, the other half he watches training videos recorded by other players on how to do cool stuff in Minecraft. People learn from each other, and Minecraft became a catalyst.
Usually in games with a script, everyone goes through the same thing - everyone saves the same princess. In Minecraft, you use imagination to do anything. This could be a story, maybe a car, maybe an interesting place to play. But whatever it is, it is your reflection, a reflection of your intentions and your creativity.
What created Jens and Marcus, reminded me of another deceptively complex toy - LEGO. Minecraft is the perfect combination of accessibility and depth, allowing you to create the most complex of the simplest. And opening a whole generation of children, the generation of computer programming. Many try to understand how to teach 7-year-olds to “code”, and they cannot. Minecraft has become an important milestone along the way. ”
Will Wright, game designer, founder of Maxis.
Ted Sarandos
Netflix, 48 years old.
“When I heard that Netflix became interested in“ Slow Development ”[sitcom such - approx. I.H.], I was very surprised. And although no one was disturbed by my thoughts, I always knew that everything would come together. The path of our show - the original, with a very unusual approach - came together with the service Netflix, which offers more freedom in how you watch or evaluate the show.
Ted helps create the future of entertainment. I do not know what it will look like, but I know that there will be a lot of it, and it will affect young artists who want to show their works just because they have something to say. This is just the beginning.
When I was playing baseball as a child, I looked at my family in the stands, and they always showed me a fist with a hint of "you can do it." They were my biggest fans. And Ted is a fan too. You always want to see a fan in your corner. For “Slow Development,” we were a small “train that could,” and we needed our own hero. And our hero came. ”
Jeffrey Tambor, actor.
Kevin Sistrom
Instagram, 29 years old.
“I hear a lot of music due to the specifics of my many works, and I was always amazed at how well it demonstrates what is happening in our life, in our relationships and in a wider culture. I never thought that any other creative environment would be able to spread with similar speed and social effects.
Fortunately, Kevin Systrom co-founded Instagram, whose motto was “a picture instead of a thousand words” and which was born on a new social media platform that forever changed the way we communicate. Today, Instagram has 100 million users who have posted more than 5 billion photos, including everything you can imagine - pizza last night or creme brulee, beautiful sunsets, favorite slippers, and devastating storms and political speeches. Easy, fun, clever and capricious.
Kevin has already managed to leave an indelible mark on our culture, not even reaching thirty. I can't wait to see him next time. ”
Ryan Seacrest, TV host for American Idol.
Kwon O Hyun
Samsung CEO, 60 years old.
“Product design, marketing and integrated supply chain management are the three components of success in the consumer electronics market. To surpass oneself in each of them is a rare feat. Akio Morita did this at Sony along with Walkman and Sony Trinitron. Steve Jobs did it with the iPhone and iPad. With the Samsung Galaxy, Kwon O'Hune joins these shark business.
The basic principles of Kwon's guidance are surprisingly simple and straightforward. Galaxy phones have a beautiful design: large, beautiful, with high-resolution displays; integrated supply chain allows you to set more attractive prices than competitors; A bold brand advertising, executed with taste and sassy self-confidence, can be compared only with Apple.
And while Samsung is building a campus in Silicon Valley, everyone’s eyes are on Kwon to see how a Stanford-level CEO can become as successful in software as he was in hardware. ”
John Sculley, former Apple CEO.
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