Welcome to the first Wired Smart List. We set out to discover the people who are going to make an impact on our future --by asking today's top achievers who, emerging in their field, they'd most like to have a leisurely lunch or dinner with. So we approached some of the world's brightest minds -- from Melinda Gates to Ai Weiwei -- to nominate one fresh, exciting thinker who is influencing them, someone whose ideas or experience they feel are transformative.
Some suggested names you may be aware of, others might be new. Either way, they're all people you really need to know about. And wired will be inviting all nominators and nominees to a giant dinner party...
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Lesego Malatsi -- designerLesego Malatsi has a business called Mzansi Designers Emporium, based in Johannesburg. The company was mentored at the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship in South Africa and it finds fantastic local fashion designers who are beginning to take their business overseas. It's doing great -- it recently showcased its fashions at London Fashion Week. Organiser Fashion's Finest described the collection as "hotter than hot".
Lesego Malatsi -- designerLesego Malatsi has a business called Mzansi Designers Emporium, based in Johannesburg. The company was mentored at the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship in South Africa and it finds fantastic local fashion designers who are beginning to take their business overseas. It's doing great -- it recently showcased its fashions at London Fashion Week. Organiser Fashion's Finest described the collection as "hotter than hot".
Niklas Zennström -- founder, Atomico; cofounder, Kazaa and Skypeselects
Markus Alexej Persson aka Notch -- creator, MinecraftNotch saw a chance to create computer games in a different way, and executed it brilliantly. He does what all great technology entrepreneurs do: think globally, seeing the true potential for an online business, while understanding his customers. He's modest but confident in his area of expertise, and is always engaging. Besides, he is a fellow Swede who is creating an international success story.
Markus Alexej Persson aka Notch -- creator, MinecraftNotch saw a chance to create computer games in a different way, and executed it brilliantly. He does what all great technology entrepreneurs do: think globally, seeing the true potential for an online business, while understanding his customers. He's modest but confident in his area of expertise, and is always engaging. Besides, he is a fellow Swede who is creating an international success story.
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Sid Meier -- game designerAs the creator of Civilization, Sid Meier has deconstructed the forces behind historical events and used computer simulation to recreate iterations of those rules and systems in an immersive and engaging gaming experience. Without Sid I'm not sure I would have begun to respect how fascinating our history and our cultures really are; or how much I could really enjoy a good video game.
Sid Meier -- game designerAs the creator of Civilization, Sid Meier has deconstructed the forces behind historical events and used computer simulation to recreate iterations of those rules and systems in an immersive and engaging gaming experience. Without Sid I'm not sure I would have begun to respect how fascinating our history and our cultures really are; or how much I could really enjoy a good video game.
Geoffrey West -- theoretical physicict
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David KrakauerDavid Krakauer is a true polymath, full of ideas and creativity. He comes out of evolutionary biology at Oxford and was at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, for several years before becoming a colleague of mine at Santa Fe Institute. He has written papers with fellow biologists Martin Nowak and Mark Pagel and was recently recruited to run the new Winsconsin Institute for Discovery -- it's broad and trans-disciplinary in outlook, though centred on the biosciences.
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David KrakauerDavid Krakauer is a true polymath, full of ideas and creativity. He comes out of evolutionary biology at Oxford and was at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, for several years before becoming a colleague of mine at Santa Fe Institute. He has written papers with fellow biologists Martin Nowak and Mark Pagel and was recently recruited to run the new Winsconsin Institute for Discovery -- it's broad and trans-disciplinary in outlook, though centred on the biosciences.
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John Armstrong -- philosopherThe writer and philosopher John Armstrong [author of In Search of Civilisation: Remaking a Tarnished Idea] is a very bold thinker, arguing that capitalism has gone wrong not because there aren't enough regulations on businesses but because there isn't enough education of consumers. In his eyes, the task is not to ban McDonald's, but to educate our desires so that we might "freely" consider alternatives. This is thinking at once boldly left- and right-wing.
John Armstrong -- philosopherThe writer and philosopher John Armstrong [author of In Search of Civilisation: Remaking a Tarnished Idea] is a very bold thinker, arguing that capitalism has gone wrong not because there aren't enough regulations on businesses but because there isn't enough education of consumers. In his eyes, the task is not to ban McDonald's, but to educate our desires so that we might "freely" consider alternatives. This is thinking at once boldly left- and right-wing.
Jane McGonigal -- game designer
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Vincent Horn and Rohan Gunatillake -- The Buddhist GeeksI'm a geek. I'm also a practising Buddhist. That's why, of everyone on the planet, I'd most like to lunch with the founder of Buddhist Geeks, Vincent Horn, and the cofounder of the Buddhist Geeks conference, Rohan Gunatillake. What's a Buddhist geek? It's someone with an interest in technology and Buddhist wisdom who wants to figure out how to use technology to reinvent a thousands-year-old spiritual practice to be more accessible, more relevant and easier to integrate into our lives. They're asking big questions, such as "How can social media support meditation practice?" "How can design thinking change the way ancient wisdom is taught and passed on?" "Can videogames lead to enlightenment?" I'm particularly passionate about that last question!
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Vincent Horn and Rohan Gunatillake -- The Buddhist GeeksI'm a geek. I'm also a practising Buddhist. That's why, of everyone on the planet, I'd most like to lunch with the founder of Buddhist Geeks, Vincent Horn, and the cofounder of the Buddhist Geeks conference, Rohan Gunatillake. What's a Buddhist geek? It's someone with an interest in technology and Buddhist wisdom who wants to figure out how to use technology to reinvent a thousands-year-old spiritual practice to be more accessible, more relevant and easier to integrate into our lives. They're asking big questions, such as "How can social media support meditation practice?" "How can design thinking change the way ancient wisdom is taught and passed on?" "Can videogames lead to enlightenment?" I'm particularly passionate about that last question!
John Brockman -- president the Edge Foundation
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Jennifer Jacquet -- postdoctoral researcher
She is intellectually fearless, deeply serious about science, personally effervescent and always curious. Her interests are environmental sustainability (particularly fish), the evolution and function of guilt, honour and shame, and the role of IT in shaping environmental action -- all of which fall under a broad interest in the tragedy of the commons. Penguin publishes her Is Shame Necessary? soon.
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Jennifer Jacquet -- postdoctoral researcher
She is intellectually fearless, deeply serious about science, personally effervescent and always curious. Her interests are environmental sustainability (particularly fish), the evolution and function of guilt, honour and shame, and the role of IT in shaping environmental action -- all of which fall under a broad interest in the tragedy of the commons. Penguin publishes her Is Shame Necessary? soon.
Esther Dyson -- investor and entrepreneur
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Nathan Eagle -- CEO, txteagle
Nathan Eagle is not just smart; he applies his intelligence to the real world, with both vision (mobile phones as capital equipment enabling millions of people around the world to become productive), and a business model (get them to collect data and market research for large companies). His company, Jana (in which I've invested), employs thousands and, ultimately, he employs millions of people in emerging markets as market researchers.
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Nathan Eagle -- CEO, txteagle
Nathan Eagle is not just smart; he applies his intelligence to the real world, with both vision (mobile phones as capital equipment enabling millions of people around the world to become productive), and a business model (get them to collect data and market research for large companies). His company, Jana (in which I've invested), employs thousands and, ultimately, he employs millions of people in emerging markets as market researchers.
Juan Enriquez -- life scientist
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Ed Boyden -- optogeneticist
Ed Boyden's research at MIT founded the field of optogenetics. Now we can observe how a brain reacts as it hears, feels, sees, smells, remembers, loves. But perhaps more interesting, scary and weird is that he's developed ways to promote or suppress memories and feelings by using fibre-optic light. Eventually, people may even be able to upload or download their memories.
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Ed Boyden -- optogeneticist
Ed Boyden's research at MIT founded the field of optogenetics. Now we can observe how a brain reacts as it hears, feels, sees, smells, remembers, loves. But perhaps more interesting, scary and weird is that he's developed ways to promote or suppress memories and feelings by using fibre-optic light. Eventually, people may even be able to upload or download their memories.
Joi Ito -- director, MIT Media Lab
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Cesar Hidalgo -- network scientist
Hidalgo is a young academic bringing economics, networks and data science together to help understand the various complexities of economic growth.
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Cesar Hidalgo -- network scientist
Hidalgo is a young academic bringing economics, networks and data science together to help understand the various complexities of economic growth.
Matt Ridley -- writer
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Reuben Abraham -- economist
He's probably the smartest, coolest and funniest economist I know, with an unrivalled and unsentimental understanding of the economic development of Asia and indeed the world. He teaches in India but plutocrats such as Bill Gates seek his advice on how to catalyse growth in emerging markets. He champions development through trade and tech for Asia and Africa, which he says has a bright future because it's following the path of trade-driven growth in living standards.
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Reuben Abraham -- economist
He's probably the smartest, coolest and funniest economist I know, with an unrivalled and unsentimental understanding of the economic development of Asia and indeed the world. He teaches in India but plutocrats such as Bill Gates seek his advice on how to catalyse growth in emerging markets. He champions development through trade and tech for Asia and Africa, which he says has a bright future because it's following the path of trade-driven growth in living standards.
Dan Ariely -- behaviourial economist
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Michael Norton -- social scientist
Mike Norton is one of the most creative social scientists I know. By asking unusual questions about the relationship between wealth and happiness he comes up with very interesting findings, observations and conclusions. There's a significant amount of literature on the theory that, as people become richer, they don't necessarily become happier. Norton asked instead whether people know how to use money to buy happiness. He asked: if you give money to people, what do they do with it? The answer was that they spend it on themselves. He then posited: what if we ask people to spend money on other people? His research revealed that those people are actually happier as a consequence. This worked with individuals, and also with groups -- when people spent money on people they worked with, the team became more productive. He and I have been working together to try to figure out what level of wealth inequality people in developed countries are willing to tolerate. What we found is that people want to live in societies that are much more equal and much fairer than currently. So why are we willing to tolerate the current level of inequality? We don't have the answer for this yet.
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Michael Norton -- social scientist
Mike Norton is one of the most creative social scientists I know. By asking unusual questions about the relationship between wealth and happiness he comes up with very interesting findings, observations and conclusions. There's a significant amount of literature on the theory that, as people become richer, they don't necessarily become happier. Norton asked instead whether people know how to use money to buy happiness. He asked: if you give money to people, what do they do with it? The answer was that they spend it on themselves. He then posited: what if we ask people to spend money on other people? His research revealed that those people are actually happier as a consequence. This worked with individuals, and also with groups -- when people spent money on people they worked with, the team became more productive. He and I have been working together to try to figure out what level of wealth inequality people in developed countries are willing to tolerate. What we found is that people want to live in societies that are much more equal and much fairer than currently. So why are we willing to tolerate the current level of inequality? We don't have the answer for this yet.
Ai Weiwei -- artist
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Chen Guangcheng -- human-rights activist
Chen Guangcheng is an activist from Shandong who lost his sight as a child; but he is a bright light that shines in the darkness. Without any professional training, he taught himself law to help himself and other disabled people and disadvantaged groups in rural areas. Outside China, he is best known for filing a lawsuit on behalf of women who suffered under China's forced-abortion and sterilisation campaign. He has also fought for more equitable taxation of villagers and disabled people. He's suffered a series of house arrests, detentions and trials and is currently confined to his home, along with his wife and daughter. Constantly under surveillance by agents and hired villagers, he's prevented from communicating with the outside world. But in February 2011 he smuggled out of the village a homemade video that described his situation. After this, he and his wife were reportedly beaten and their computer, video camera, audio recorder and TV aerial, as well as legal documents relating to his case, were confiscated. The windows of the family house were covered with metal sheets. His bravery, persistence and thirst for justice are great inspirations. I would like to take this opportunity to express my respect for him and to send him my best. It would be an honour for me to meet him one day.
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Chen Guangcheng -- human-rights activist
Chen Guangcheng is an activist from Shandong who lost his sight as a child; but he is a bright light that shines in the darkness. Without any professional training, he taught himself law to help himself and other disabled people and disadvantaged groups in rural areas. Outside China, he is best known for filing a lawsuit on behalf of women who suffered under China's forced-abortion and sterilisation campaign. He has also fought for more equitable taxation of villagers and disabled people. He's suffered a series of house arrests, detentions and trials and is currently confined to his home, along with his wife and daughter. Constantly under surveillance by agents and hired villagers, he's prevented from communicating with the outside world. But in February 2011 he smuggled out of the village a homemade video that described his situation. After this, he and his wife were reportedly beaten and their computer, video camera, audio recorder and TV aerial, as well as legal documents relating to his case, were confiscated. The windows of the family house were covered with metal sheets. His bravery, persistence and thirst for justice are great inspirations. I would like to take this opportunity to express my respect for him and to send him my best. It would be an honour for me to meet him one day.
Daniel Kahneman -- psychologist and Nobel Laureate
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Sendhil Mullainathan -- professor of economics, Harvard UniversitySendhil Mullainathan is a rising star in behavioural economics. His work on the psychological traps of poverty may introduce a new paradigm for joining psychology, economics and policy.
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Sendhil Mullainathan -- professor of economics, Harvard UniversitySendhil Mullainathan is a rising star in behavioural economics. His work on the psychological traps of poverty may introduce a new paradigm for joining psychology, economics and policy.
Rohan Silva -- senior policy adviser to David Cameron
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Carlo Ratti -- director, SENSEable City Laboratory, MIT
Carlo Ratti is at the forefront of thinking about the way in which technology can be used to rewire cities, making them more energy efficient, reducing traffic congestion and stimulating new entrepreneurial activity. With half of the world's population now living in urban areas, Ratti's work could have an impact on the lives of billions of people in the years ahead.
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Carlo Ratti -- director, SENSEable City Laboratory, MIT
Carlo Ratti is at the forefront of thinking about the way in which technology can be used to rewire cities, making them more energy efficient, reducing traffic congestion and stimulating new entrepreneurial activity. With half of the world's population now living in urban areas, Ratti's work could have an impact on the lives of billions of people in the years ahead.
Carlo Ratti -- director, SENSEable City Laboratory, MIT
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Salman Khan -- founder, Khan Academy
Higher education urgently needs to be reinvented while the world is trying to cope with an unprecedented demand from youth in emerging countries. It's vital that all of us -- researchers, teachers, academics -- look at how new technology can help with this. Mr Khan is one of the people doing exactly this, through his online Khan Academy (khanacademy.org).
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Salman Khan -- founder, Khan Academy
Higher education urgently needs to be reinvented while the world is trying to cope with an unprecedented demand from youth in emerging countries. It's vital that all of us -- researchers, teachers, academics -- look at how new technology can help with this. Mr Khan is one of the people doing exactly this, through his online Khan Academy (khanacademy.org).
Esra'a Al Shafei -- internet activist, founder and director of MideastYouth.com
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Yana Buhrer Tavanier -- human-rights activist
My choice is a Bulgarian activist and investigative journalist working to expose the inhumane treatment of children and adults with disabilities and mental illness in the Balkans. She's also a prominent member of the Bulgarian LGBT-rights movement but her influence expands beyond Bulgaria. We met at TED. She is dedicated and committed to making change, which she will achieve.
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Yana Buhrer Tavanier -- human-rights activist
My choice is a Bulgarian activist and investigative journalist working to expose the inhumane treatment of children and adults with disabilities and mental illness in the Balkans. She's also a prominent member of the Bulgarian LGBT-rights movement but her influence expands beyond Bulgaria. We met at TED. She is dedicated and committed to making change, which she will achieve.
Fabiola Gianotti -- particle scientist, Cern
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Nima Arkani-Hamed -- theoretical physicist
Now at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, he is one of the most outstanding theorists in fundamental physics today, in spite of his young age. For instance, he has proposed pioneering ideas to reconcile gravity with the other forces. Not only a brilliant thinker, he's also lively, full of ideas and energy, and has a good sense of humour. A very enriching person to be around.
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Nima Arkani-Hamed -- theoretical physicist
Now at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, he is one of the most outstanding theorists in fundamental physics today, in spite of his young age. For instance, he has proposed pioneering ideas to reconcile gravity with the other forces. Not only a brilliant thinker, he's also lively, full of ideas and energy, and has a good sense of humour. A very enriching person to be around.
Julia Hartz -- president, Eventbrite
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Leila Janah -- winner, World Technology Award for social entrepreneurship 2010
Leila inspires me as an entrepreneur because she's truly bold in the risks she takes to help alleviate poverty, empower women and take advantage of technology to achieve her mission. Through her social business, SamaSource, she champions microwork: small, computer-based tasks that generate life-changing income for women all over the world -- empowering them with marketable skills. What is genius about her approach is the way in which she leverages the newest, most effective technology, such as Facebook, iOS and CrowdFlower, to extend her reach to anyone around the world. The winning ingredient of her business model is the ease with which her customers connect with the microwork network through lightweight applications. I've had the pleasure of meeting and working with her and I find her to be incredibly humble, focused and relentless in her pursuit to change the world.
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Leila Janah -- winner, World Technology Award for social entrepreneurship 2010
Leila inspires me as an entrepreneur because she's truly bold in the risks she takes to help alleviate poverty, empower women and take advantage of technology to achieve her mission. Through her social business, SamaSource, she champions microwork: small, computer-based tasks that generate life-changing income for women all over the world -- empowering them with marketable skills. What is genius about her approach is the way in which she leverages the newest, most effective technology, such as Facebook, iOS and CrowdFlower, to extend her reach to anyone around the world. The winning ingredient of her business model is the ease with which her customers connect with the microwork network through lightweight applications. I've had the pleasure of meeting and working with her and I find her to be incredibly humble, focused and relentless in her pursuit to change the world.
Jimmy Wales -- founder, Wikipedia
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Andrey Andreev -- founder, Badoo
I'm intrigued by Badoo's growth to over 120 million users in an under-the-radar way. Its founder, Andrey Andreev, has been called secretive and mysterious, but when I met him (once, at Founders Forum in the UK) he seemed neither; just your typical smart, serious, interesting tech geek on a mission to create something that people like. I've tested Badoo which, as a dating site, isn't something I'm in the market for myself, but I'm impressed with how it works, and fascinated by the game-like business model.
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Andrey Andreev -- founder, Badoo
I'm intrigued by Badoo's growth to over 120 million users in an under-the-radar way. Its founder, Andrey Andreev, has been called secretive and mysterious, but when I met him (once, at Founders Forum in the UK) he seemed neither; just your typical smart, serious, interesting tech geek on a mission to create something that people like. I've tested Badoo which, as a dating site, isn't something I'm in the market for myself, but I'm impressed with how it works, and fascinated by the game-like business model.
Danny Hillis -- inventor and entrepreneur
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Jehane Noujaim -- documentary director
In a world of increasing polarisation, documentary film-maker Jehane Noujaim (Startup.com, Control Room and Pangea Day) seeks the understanding that comes from empathy with multiple perspectives. One of the great battles in the world right now is between the self-righteous monoculturalist (Rush Limbaugh, Michael Moore) and the open-minded multiculturalist. People tend to listen to those who reinforce their view: I see Noujaim as a game changer because she makes films that encourage you to see other viewpoints. In the battle for the mindset of our future civilisation, I'm rooting for Noujaim.
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Jehane Noujaim -- documentary director
In a world of increasing polarisation, documentary film-maker Jehane Noujaim (Startup.com, Control Room and Pangea Day) seeks the understanding that comes from empathy with multiple perspectives. One of the great battles in the world right now is between the self-righteous monoculturalist (Rush Limbaugh, Michael Moore) and the open-minded multiculturalist. People tend to listen to those who reinforce their view: I see Noujaim as a game changer because she makes films that encourage you to see other viewpoints. In the battle for the mindset of our future civilisation, I'm rooting for Noujaim.
Catherine Mohr -- roboticist and doctor
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Marilyn Waring -- human-rights activist
Marilyn Waring is an extremely clear thinker about the disastrous consequences of using measures such as GDP as a surrogate for "progress" or "wellbeing" in a country. She has also analysed how economics as it is currently practised as a "science" is radically defective and that it drives decisions in globalisation that have unintended but terrible consequences for the world. We must realise that we can't tackle the problems in health care, environmental issues, food security, democracy and women's rights in isolation; they must be seen as a set of interrelated issues, and anyone who wants to make a difference in the human condition must look at all of these factors. Waring has taken these issues head on, with the courage to call for new measures for what we call progress so that we stop rewarding moving away from what should be our global goals.
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Marilyn Waring -- human-rights activist
Marilyn Waring is an extremely clear thinker about the disastrous consequences of using measures such as GDP as a surrogate for "progress" or "wellbeing" in a country. She has also analysed how economics as it is currently practised as a "science" is radically defective and that it drives decisions in globalisation that have unintended but terrible consequences for the world. We must realise that we can't tackle the problems in health care, environmental issues, food security, democracy and women's rights in isolation; they must be seen as a set of interrelated issues, and anyone who wants to make a difference in the human condition must look at all of these factors. Waring has taken these issues head on, with the courage to call for new measures for what we call progress so that we stop rewarding moving away from what should be our global goals.
Yossi Vardi -- entrepreneur
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Shai Reshef -- educator
Shai has revolutionised the way higher education can be provided to millions of young, capable people in emerging economies. He is using internet tools to provide free online higher education over the net. After having had a successful for-profit career in supplementary education, he is dedicating his life and resources to this new social initiative. He will change the outcome of many youngsters.
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Shai Reshef -- educator
Shai has revolutionised the way higher education can be provided to millions of young, capable people in emerging economies. He is using internet tools to provide free online higher education over the net. After having had a successful for-profit career in supplementary education, he is dedicating his life and resources to this new social initiative. He will change the outcome of many youngsters.
Stephen Emmott -- head of Computational Science, Microsoft Research Cambridge
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Drew Purves -- Computational Ecology and Environmental Science Group (CEES), Microsoft Research Cambridge
Drew is an absolutely amazing once-in-a-generation young scientist whose work is set to completely shake up science, intergovernmental policy and technology in what is arguably the most important societal challenge we face: climate and ecology. An immensely inspiring, original thinker and a gifted and technologically/computationally savvy scientist, his ideas are unquestionably going to be influential both in science, policy and technology. In my opinion, Drew should be on wired's front cover, let alone on wired's radar, because he will be one of the key influencers in the science and the technology of climate and ecological science.
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Drew Purves -- Computational Ecology and Environmental Science Group (CEES), Microsoft Research Cambridge
Drew is an absolutely amazing once-in-a-generation young scientist whose work is set to completely shake up science, intergovernmental policy and technology in what is arguably the most important societal challenge we face: climate and ecology. An immensely inspiring, original thinker and a gifted and technologically/computationally savvy scientist, his ideas are unquestionably going to be influential both in science, policy and technology. In my opinion, Drew should be on wired's front cover, let alone on wired's radar, because he will be one of the key influencers in the science and the technology of climate and ecological science.
JR -- artist and photographer
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Marco Berrebi -- photographer
Berrebi is a visionary because he always clearly separates the financial interest and the artistic vision of any project. An idea for him should be like an equation: either it works, or it doesn't; but there should be no compromise. The beauty of his work is getting to this equation; it's a long road but maybe, for him, this is the art.
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Marco Berrebi -- photographer
Berrebi is a visionary because he always clearly separates the financial interest and the artistic vision of any project. An idea for him should be like an equation: either it works, or it doesn't; but there should be no compromise. The beauty of his work is getting to this equation; it's a long road but maybe, for him, this is the art.
Lisa Randall -- physicist
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Zohar Komargodski -- scientist
Komargodski has made several important contributions to developments in field theory. With Adam Schwimmer, he proved a result that had been conjectured for years about how a particular quantity changes with energy. He has also made developments in what are known as supersymmetric theories, proving exact results or coming up with new interpretations in what were thought to be well-trodden regimes.
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Zohar Komargodski -- scientist
Komargodski has made several important contributions to developments in field theory. With Adam Schwimmer, he proved a result that had been conjectured for years about how a particular quantity changes with energy. He has also made developments in what are known as supersymmetric theories, proving exact results or coming up with new interpretations in what were thought to be well-trodden regimes.
Yves Béhar -- industrial designer
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Issey Miyake -- fashion designer
Issey Miyake is exactly what I look for in a designer: industrious, groundbreaking and an inventor at heart. Transcending his field and inspiring architects and designers is a huge contribution in itself, but he also creates his own world of industrial, structural and visual language that can be worn to amazing effect. His creativity never stops and he continues to search for more.
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Issey Miyake -- fashion designer
Issey Miyake is exactly what I look for in a designer: industrious, groundbreaking and an inventor at heart. Transcending his field and inspiring architects and designers is a huge contribution in itself, but he also creates his own world of industrial, structural and visual language that can be worn to amazing effect. His creativity never stops and he continues to search for more.
Reid Hoffman -- founder, LinkedIn
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Joi Ito -- director, MIT Media Lab
He has had amazing influences upon the web -- he and I invested in Flickr -- but he'll make an important transformation of education with Media Lab. He'll work with the faculty on a curriculum to integrate a bias to action as part of preparation for life, similar to "be the entrepreneur of your own life". And he'll work on connecting academic and industry research programmes for strong mutual value -- eg. open-source hardware.
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Joi Ito -- director, MIT Media Lab
He has had amazing influences upon the web -- he and I invested in Flickr -- but he'll make an important transformation of education with Media Lab. He'll work with the faculty on a curriculum to integrate a bias to action as part of preparation for life, similar to "be the entrepreneur of your own life". And he'll work on connecting academic and industry research programmes for strong mutual value -- eg. open-source hardware.
Paul Smith -- designer
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Jonathan Ive -- senior vice-president, industrial design, Apple Inc
I see Jonathan a few times every year, but unfortunately he mostly pops in during one of his London visits and we never really have enough time for a leisurely lunch due to both of our schedules being very hectic. I would choose him because I enjoy the way he thinks about things and the observations that he makes. We all know what amazing things he has achieved at Apple.
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Jonathan Ive -- senior vice-president, industrial design, Apple Inc
I see Jonathan a few times every year, but unfortunately he mostly pops in during one of his London visits and we never really have enough time for a leisurely lunch due to both of our schedules being very hectic. I would choose him because I enjoy the way he thinks about things and the observations that he makes. We all know what amazing things he has achieved at Apple.
Clay Shirky -- internet evangelist
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Amira al Hussaini -- journalist and blogger
Operating as @JustAmira, Al Hussaini coinvented the curated, personal news feed as a journalistic form. The thing that sets her apart from peers such as Sultan Al Qassemi and Andy Carvin is that she became an actor in the events she covered. She exhibited scepticism that the Arab Spring would come to her native Bahrain, but as the Al Khalifas' reactions to the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt became more strident, she questioned their motives and suggested that they should not be afraid of sharing political power with their people. But her calls for openness became too much -- she was added to a list of enemies of the state, went into hiding, and was eventually spirited out of the country to Berlin, where she continues to write about the Arab Spring. I admire her for her intellect, for her sense of what new media forms make possible, for her political commitment, and for her bravery. I communicated with her last spring to wish her well when she was a wanted woman, but we've never met. She's the name I'd add to this fantasy team.
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Amira al Hussaini -- journalist and blogger
Operating as @JustAmira, Al Hussaini coinvented the curated, personal news feed as a journalistic form. The thing that sets her apart from peers such as Sultan Al Qassemi and Andy Carvin is that she became an actor in the events she covered. She exhibited scepticism that the Arab Spring would come to her native Bahrain, but as the Al Khalifas' reactions to the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt became more strident, she questioned their motives and suggested that they should not be afraid of sharing political power with their people. But her calls for openness became too much -- she was added to a list of enemies of the state, went into hiding, and was eventually spirited out of the country to Berlin, where she continues to write about the Arab Spring. I admire her for her intellect, for her sense of what new media forms make possible, for her political commitment, and for her bravery. I communicated with her last spring to wish her well when she was a wanted woman, but we've never met. She's the name I'd add to this fantasy team.
Iain Sinclair -- writer
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Don DeLillo -- writer
"It takes time to lose interest in things," DeLillo wrote. And time, American time, at home and abroad, looking out and looking back, is what he has and what he trades in. Historic time leaves you in difficult places: borders, transits, waiting rooms, deserts, runways, oceans, cities. DeLillo has such an instinct about where to start, where to position himself in the room. I admire the way the work gathered itself over the years, building up to the big wave, and then took time -- time again -- to study patterns left in the sand. Aftershocks and meditations in stripped-down sets. In other words, that mystery of craft… script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-35988661-1']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'blogspot.com']); _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://' : 'http://') + 'stats.g.doubleclick.net/dc.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();
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Don DeLillo -- writer
"It takes time to lose interest in things," DeLillo wrote. And time, American time, at home and abroad, looking out and looking back, is what he has and what he trades in. Historic time leaves you in difficult places: borders, transits, waiting rooms, deserts, runways, oceans, cities. DeLillo has such an instinct about where to start, where to position himself in the room. I admire the way the work gathered itself over the years, building up to the big wave, and then took time -- time again -- to study patterns left in the sand. Aftershocks and meditations in stripped-down sets. In other words, that mystery of craft… script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-35988661-1']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'blogspot.com']); _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://' : 'http://') + 'stats.g.doubleclick.net/dc.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();
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