"The World Technology Network is a global meeting ground, a virtual think tank, and an elite club whose members are all focused on the business and science of bringing important emerging technologies of all types (from biotech to new materials, from IT to new energy sources) into reality. The WTN's membership is comprised of approximately 1000 members from more than 60 countries, judged by their peers to be the most innovative in the technology world."
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Tom Anderson |
Business |
13-Oct-1975 |
|
Co-Founder of MySpace |
| Marc Andreessen |
Computer Programmer |
26-Apr-1971 |
|
Co-Founder of Netscape |
| Lori B. Andrews |
Attorney |
c. 1953 |
|
Genetics and biotechnology law |
| Paul Baran |
Engineer |
29-Apr-1926 |
26-Mar-2011 |
Packet-sharing in computer communications |
| Gregory Benford |
Novelist |
30-Jan-1941 |
|
Physicist and author of Timescape |
| Tim Berners-Lee |
Computer Programmer |
8-Jun-1955 |
|
Inventor of the World Wide Web |
| Jeff Bezos |
Business |
12-Jan-1964 |
|
Founder of Amazon |
| Tony Blair |
Head of State |
6-May-1953 |
|
UK Prime Minister, 1997-2007 |
| Sherwood Boehlert |
Politician |
28-Sep-1936 |
|
Congressman from New York, 1983-2007 |
| Grady Booch |
Computer Programmer |
27-Feb-1955 |
|
Unified Modeling Language |
| Sergey Brin |
Business |
21-Aug-1973 |
|
Co-Founder of Google |
| John Brockman |
Pundit |
1941 |
|
Editor of edge.org |
| Santiago Calatrava |
Architect |
28-Jul-1951 |
|
Designer of new WTC transit station |
| Steve Case |
Business |
21-Aug-1958 |
|
CEO of AOL, 1991-2001 |
| Vint Cerf |
Scientist |
23-Jun-1943 |
|
Co-Designed Internet's TCP-IP protocol |
| John T. Chambers |
Business |
23-Aug-1949 |
|
CEO of Cisco |
| Bill Clinton |
Head of State |
19-Aug-1946 |
|
42nd US President, 1993-2001 |
| Bram Cohen |
Computer Programmer |
1975 |
|
Creator of BitTorrent |
| Robert X. Cringely |
Journalist |
c. 1953 |
|
Computer pundit I, Cringely |
| Richard Dawkins |
Biologist |
26-Mar-1941 |
|
Zoologist and evolutionary biologist |
| Chris DeWolfe |
Business |
1966 |
|
Co-Founder of MySpace |
| Peter Diamandis |
Activist |
20-May-1961 |
|
Chairman of the X-Prize Foundation |
| Shawn Fanning |
Computer Programmer |
22-Nov-1980 |
|
Founded the Napster mp3 free-for-all |
| Dan Farmer |
Computer Programmer |
5-Apr-1962 |
|
Cowrote SATAN security auditing tool |
| David Filo |
Business |
20-Apr-1966 |
|
Co-Founder of Yahoo |
| John Gage |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Sun Microsystems |
| Bill Gates |
Business |
28-Oct-1955 |
|
Co-Founder of Microsoft |
| George Gilder |
Pundit |
29-Nov-1939 |
|
Technological futurist pundit |
| Rob Glaser |
Business |
16-Jan-1962 |
|
CEO of RealNetworks, 1994-2010 |
| Mary L. Good |
Educator |
20-Jun-1931 |
|
Donaghey Professor, U. Arkansas |
| Al Gore |
Politician |
31-Mar-1948 |
|
US Vice President under Clinton |
| Maurice R. Greenberg |
Business |
4-May-1925 |
|
CEO of American International Group, 1967-2005 |
| Brian Greene |
Author |
9-Feb-1963 |
|
The Elegant Universe |
| William R. Hambrecht |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
W.R. Hambrecht & Co. |
| Danny Hillis |
Business |
25-Sep-1956 |
|
Co-Founder, Thinking Machines |
| Tomlinson Holman |
Engineer |
7-Jun-1946 |
|
THX sound system |
| Mark Hurd |
Business |
1957 |
|
President of Oracle |
| Steve Jobs |
Business |
24-Feb-1955 |
5-Oct-2011 |
Co-Founder of Apple Computer |
| Bill Joy |
Computer Programmer |
8-Nov-1954 |
|
BSD designer, C shell, vi, Java |
| Robert E. Kahn |
Scientist |
23-Dec-1938 |
|
Co-Inventor, Internet's TCP-IP protocol |
| Guy Kawasaki |
Business |
30-Aug-1954 |
|
Former chief evangelist of Apple Computer |
| Wolfgang Ketterle |
Physicist |
21-Oct-1957 |
|
Bose-Einstein condensates |
| Vinod Khosla |
Business |
28-Jan-1955 |
|
Venture capitalist |
| Randal Kleiser |
Film Director |
20-Jul-1946 |
|
Grease |
| Sir Harold Kroto |
Chemist |
7-Oct-1939 |
|
Co-Discovered fullerenes |
| Paul Krugman |
Columnist |
28-Feb-1953 |
|
New York Times columnist/economist |
| Lawrence Lessig |
Attorney |
3-Jun-1961 |
|
Constitutional and internet law |
| Bjørn Lomborg |
Scholar |
6-Jan-1965 |
|
The Skeptical Environmentalist |
| John Markoff |
Journalist |
24-Oct-1949 |
|
New York Times computer guy |
| John McCain |
Politician |
29-Aug-1936 |
|
US Senator from Arizona |
| Michael Milken |
Business |
4-Jul-1946 |
|
Convicted financial executive |
| Gordon Moore |
Business |
3-Jan-1929 |
|
Co-founder of Intel, laid down Moore's Law |
| Michael Moritz |
Business |
12-Sep-1954 |
|
Partner, Sequoia Capital |
| Walter Mossberg |
Columnist |
27-Mar-1947 |
|
Technology columnist, Wall Street Journal |
| Craig Newmark |
Computer Programmer |
2-Dec-1952 |
|
Founder, Craigslist |
| Paul Nurse |
Scientist |
25-Jan-1949 |
|
Regulators of cell cycle |
| Pierre M. Omidyar |
Business |
21-Jun-1967 |
|
Founder of eBay |
| Ray Ozzie |
Computer Programmer |
20-Nov-1955 |
|
Microsoft Chief Software Architect, 2006-10 |
| Larry Page |
Business |
26-Mar-1973 |
|
Co-Founder of Google |
| Faith Popcorn |
Pundit |
c. 1948 |
|
The Popcorn Report |
| Howard Rheingold |
Author |
7-Jul-1947 |
|
The Virtual Community |
| Dennis Ritchie |
Computer Programmer |
9-Sep-1941 |
12-Oct-2011 |
Co-Creator of UNIX |
| Philip Rosedale |
Business |
29-Sep-1968 |
|
Founder and CEO, Linden Lab |
| Marc Rotenberg |
Activist |
20-Apr-1960 |
|
Electronic Privacy Information Center |
| Burt Rutan |
Scientist |
17-Jun-1943 |
|
Homebrew aircraft guru |
| Pamela Samuelson |
Educator |
c. 1949 |
|
Computer Law Professor at UC Berkeley |
| Robert J. Shiller |
Economist |
29-Mar-1946 |
|
Irrational Exuberance |
| Peter Singer |
Philosopher |
6-Jul-1946 |
|
Animal Liberation |
| Eliot Spitzer |
Government |
10-Jun-1959 |
|
Governor of New York, 2007-08 |
| Richard Stallman |
Computer Programmer |
16-Mar-1953 |
|
Founder, GNU software project |
| Sebastian Thrun |
Scientist |
1967 |
|
Stanford AI Laboratory |
| Linus Torvalds |
Computer Programmer |
28-Dec-1969 |
|
Created the kernel for the GNU/Linux OS |
| Guido van Rossum |
Computer Programmer |
? |
|
Created Python programming language |
| Harold E. Varmus |
Scientist |
18-Dec-1939 |
|
Genetic causes of cancer |
| John Vasconcellos |
Politician |
11-May-1932 |
24-May-2014 |
California State Legislator |
| Craig Venter |
Biologist |
14-Oct-1946 |
|
Engineered the first man-made bacterial cell |
| Jimbo Wales |
Encyclopaedist |
8-Aug-1966 |
|
Co-Founder of Wikipedia |
| Sanford I. Weill |
Business |
16-Mar-1933 |
|
CEO of Citigroup, 1998-2003 |
| Jerry Wind |
Educator |
c. 1939 |
|
Director, SEI Center, Wharton |
| David Wu |
Politician |
8-Apr-1955 |
|
Congressman from Oregon, 1999-2011 |
| Jerry Yang |
Business |
6-Nov-1968 |
|
Co-Founder of Yahoo |
| Muhammad Yunus |
Business |
28-Jun-1940 |
|
Banker to the Poor |
