> The average person uses the web all the time but has never heard of Tim Berners-Lee or any of the awards you mention. But they know who won the Oscar for a mo

> The average person uses the web all the time but has never heard of Tim Berners-Lee or any of the awards you mention. But they know who won the Oscar for a movie they watched for 90 minutes. Then I ask: Does the typical user of a mobile phone know who invented the frequency hopping that is used in modern mobile network standards (hint: it was an actress): https://goo.gl/fVYYbY https://goo.gl/fVYYbY The same could be said of about lots of other major technical inventions.