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It's these kinds of larger than life personalities who carry humanity forward, or at least make the big leaps possible. Not the conservative ivy league money ma

It's these kinds of larger than life personalities who carry humanity forward, or at least make the big leaps possible. Not the conservative ivy league money manilupulators now pretending to be tech visionaries at VC firms in exchange for a quick skim off the top.

aijoe 8y ago
It's also their mothers.
collyw 8y ago
Tim Berners Lee never came across as large than life personality. I would say he had quite a profound impact on things. More than "larger than life" type Steve Jobs IMHO.
- nickpeterson 8y ago
  You're speaking of real history, not the watered down version that gets taught to school children. Unfortunately, without concerted effort, the public will willfully reject an alternate history if it's more nuanced. Exhibit A, who invented the telephone?
  - purple-again 8y ago
    That is a really bad example to use as there is no general agreement on the issue. The Italian government obviously has a biased opinion in wanting to credit one of their citizens(I’m actually confused if he was Italian or American because it said his invention was in New York). I don’t know what skin in the game Canada has when they passed a resolution recognizing Bell Graham as the inventor. Honestly to me it looks like there is not a clear answer. You can pick either of them you want, draw an abitrary line in the sand about what a ‘telephone’ really is and use that line to defend your choice. Any rational argument on the topic will have to start with both parties agreeing on what a telephone is first and then looking at the two parties to see which invented their agreed definition.
- innagadadavida 8y ago
  There were other competing ideas to http and html. They were better but unfortunately lost out. Tim is incredibly lucky that what he wrote for his PhD unexpectedly took off - he is also a one hit wonder. Steve’s story is vastly different.
  - erikpukinskis 8y ago
    Yeah, I appreciate TBL, but I don’t think he can take credit for the web. The web picked his project as its nest, more than he did anything to conjure it.
kyleblarson 8y ago
It's more Standord that Ivy Leagers.
knuththetruth 8y ago
Masayoshi Son nearly destroyed his entire business during the dotcom crash, and was really only saved by his investment in Alibaba, an essentially state-owned technology company. It’s weird to frame his success in some “great man of history” terms when the only reason he’s still wealthy and powerful is because of his alliance with the world’s largest authoritarian regime?
adamsea 8y ago
... and they reach their great heights of monumentousness without help, learning, encouragement or support from useless people like caring mothers, fathers, teachers, and mentors /sarcasm

aijoe 8y ago

It's also their mothers.

collyw 8y ago

Tim Berners Lee never came across as large than life personality. I would say he had quite a profound impact on things. More than "larger than life" type Steve Jobs IMHO.

nickpeterson 8y ago
You're speaking of real history, not the watered down version that gets taught to school children. Unfortunately, without concerted effort, the public will willfully reject an alternate history if it's more nuanced. Exhibit A, who invented the telephone?
- purple-again 8y ago
  That is a really bad example to use as there is no general agreement on the issue. The Italian government obviously has a biased opinion in wanting to credit one of their citizens(I’m actually confused if he was Italian or American because it said his invention was in New York). I don’t know what skin in the game Canada has when they passed a resolution recognizing Bell Graham as the inventor. Honestly to me it looks like there is not a clear answer. You can pick either of them you want, draw an abitrary line in the sand about what a ‘telephone’ really is and use that line to defend your choice. Any rational argument on the topic will have to start with both parties agreeing on what a telephone is first and then looking at the two parties to see which invented their agreed definition.
innagadadavida 8y ago
There were other competing ideas to http and html. They were better but unfortunately lost out. Tim is incredibly lucky that what he wrote for his PhD unexpectedly took off - he is also a one hit wonder. Steve’s story is vastly different.
- erikpukinskis 8y ago
  Yeah, I appreciate TBL, but I don’t think he can take credit for the web. The web picked his project as its nest, more than he did anything to conjure it.

kyleblarson 8y ago

It's more Standord that Ivy Leagers.

knuththetruth 8y ago

Masayoshi Son nearly destroyed his entire business during the dotcom crash, and was really only saved by his investment in Alibaba, an essentially state-owned technology company. It’s weird to frame his success in some “great man of history” terms when the only reason he’s still wealthy and powerful is because of his alliance with the world’s largest authoritarian regime?

adamsea 8y ago

... and they reach their great heights of monumentousness without help, learning, encouragement or support from useless people like caring mothers, fathers, teachers, and mentors /sarcasm