The top 1 percentile was a gross understatement that I should have removed immediately ;) I agree with many commenters. I would, however, like to point out tha

The top 1 percentile was a gross understatement that I should have removed immediately ;) I agree with many commenters. I would, however, like to point out that 20th century had many, many great minds, also working in the same timeframe. Claude Shannon comes to mind first, but there were many others whose contributions are the basis of technology today.