We follow their Dreams

• Tim Berners-Lee

  A British engineer and computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web ( www ). He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, and is a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

  
  
• Larry Page & Sergey Brin

  When net mania had reached an unbridled frenzy of sock puppets and paper millionaires, a pair of unknown computer scientists often stayed up late pondering Star Trek. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who had dropped out of Stanford University's computer-science PhD program to found a little-known search company in Palo Alto, Calif., mused about building a tool like the USS Enterprise's omniscient computer. The all-knowing voice would always deliver the precise answer to any question in a fraction of a second. Yes it became integral part of our life. Yes its 'Google'

  
  
• Mark Zuckerberg

  What the CIA failed to do in 60 years, Zuck has done in 7: knowing what 800 million people--more than 10% of the world's population--think, read and listen to, plus who they know, what they like and where they live, travel, vote, shop, worship. U.S. users spend more time on Facebook--on average 6.3 hours a month--than on any other site. The Harvard dropout is now creating his own monetary system, Facebook Credits, to facilitate transactions and profits.