No. 48 Sir Tim Berners-Lee, father of the web
Last year's position: 19
Why? Creating the www
As the inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee's reputation precedes him for the system he came up with 15 years ago to organise, link and browse pages of text and images in a whole new way.
The Agenda Setters panel agreed the web continues to influence the whole tech industry. "He set the agenda big time," said one panellist.
But what has he done for us lately?
Berners-Lee continues to work on the semantic web, a kind of web that will be understandable to machines, while heading up the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT.
While the panel agreed the semantic web could yet prove influential, it's still too early to tell - and so the 'father of the web' fell down the list from number 19 last year to 48 this year.
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