I personally feel that Sir Tim Berners Lee is the biggest single influence on the world since Jesus (or the myth of Jesus for those that don't believe in him).
No one has been responsible for such a gigantic shift in the way that mankind operates at almost every single level.
What is more surprising that many of don't even know his name.
Do you agree? Disgaree?
Who do you feel that has influenced, and changed, everyone's lives on the planet on such a daily basis covering almost every topic imaginable?
Can you name anyone in the last two thousand years?
EDIT: Please give examples of the changes to daily life that your suggestions have made.
EDIT 2: Named changed. Whoops :p
No one has been responsible for such a gigantic shift in the way that mankind operates at almost every single level.
What is more surprising that many of don't even know his name.
Do you agree? Disgaree?
Who do you feel that has influenced, and changed, everyone's lives on the planet on such a daily basis covering almost every topic imaginable?
Can you name anyone in the last two thousand years?
EDIT: Please give examples of the changes to daily life that your suggestions have made.
EDIT 2: Named changed. Whoops :p
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Feel free to list away though (but I will give you the point :p)
And no, I don't think so. Here's ten people who've had a bigger effect.
Karl Marx
Charles Darwin
Martin Luther
John Maynard Keynes
Isaac Newton
Michael Faraday
Gottfried Leibnitz
Thomas Aquinas
Sigmund Freud
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
What global daily contributions spanning a wide range of activities (commerce, entertainment, thought, news, etc) have the above made?
The Web fundamentally changed the internet. I remember being at work one day when a sysadmin came up and said, "There's this new thing called the World Wide Web. I think you'd like it". I installed the Mosaic browser and was quite blown away by it. The web has had a massive effect on commerce, the music industry and lots of other aspects of our lives. The fact that we're communicating now using LJ is testimony of this.
Marconi, Bell, Turing etc. all deserve similar credit.
Jon Postel probably deserves as much, if not more credit, but who ever mentions him?
Changes to my daily life?:
1) I was born when I was because of it - and I kind of assume 'who' I was, too: without it, some other egg and some other sperm would have won the race in the early years of my parents' marriage, and this particular 'me' would never have existed.
2) My partner and I have lives - as opposed to kids ;) - because of it.
I wholeheartedly agree. The internet has created a profoud shift in society, but reliable female contraception was probably the epochal change of the 20th century. I'd rate it above Nuclear Fission in terms of importance.