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feature list: the Time 100 :: The readers choice list.
deck: The 100 most influential people in the world.
year: 2011
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An introduction.
For the Time 100 list — our Time magazine editors select the leaders, artists, innovators, icons, and heroes they think are the most influential people in the world. The list is printed in the annual Time 100 — a special edition of the magazine.
Leading-up to the final selections, Time conducts a poll — gathering votes for who you think should make the list. We publish that Readers Choice list digitally, along with the candidate bios.
Meet the world’s most captivating people. They’re artists, activists, reformers, researchers, politicians, and captains of industry. Their ideas spark dialogue, and sometimes dissent.
— Time
— no. 30 —
profile | Ray Kurzweil
The best-selling author, inventor, and futurist Ray Kurzweil — ranked no. 30 on the Readers Choice list for year 2011. Picked for general popularity and contributions to society, science, and knowledge. Already a certified genius in high school, Kurzweil sold his first software company in college.
He went on to craft — like the historic pioneer Thomas Edison — a brood of useful inventions. He’s known widely for his influential, theoretical non-fiction books about humanity’s future. Kurzweil is a prophet of the singularity: a scenario in which computers evolve into powerful artificial intelligence (AI) that will — in the mid–21st century — re-fashion their human creators into demi-gods.
The concept of tech singularity isn’t mainstream yet. But Kurzweil’s measured, data-rich arguments have earned it a solid following among the techno-intelligentsia — including supporter Larry Page, Google co-founder.
— Time
the LIST
feature list: the Time 100 :: The readers choice list.
deck: The 100 most influential people in the world.
year: 2011
- Jung Ji-Hoon — aka: Rain
- Jay Chou
- Susan Boyle
- Mahinda Rajapaksa
- Cheng Yen
- Beyonce Giselle Knowles Carter — aka: Beyonce
- Chris Colfer
- Christopher Eric Hitchens
- Bradley Manning
- Glenn Lee Beck
- Tawakul Karman
- Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta — aka: Lady Gaga
- Julian Paul Assange
- Ron Paul
- Aamir Khan
- the Daiichi power plant staff ~ of Fukushima, Japan
- Mohamed Bouazizi
- Han Han
- the Fabulous 14 state senators ~ of Wisconsin, US
- Robyn Rihanna Fenty — aka: Rihanna
- Dan Savage + Terry Miller
- Mohamed Elbaradei
- Alan Mulally
- Sarah Palin
- Gabrielle Giffords
- Wael Ghonim
- Mara Brock Akil
- Hu Jintao
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Ray Kurzweil
- Al-Jazeera
- Michelle Obama
- Michelle Rhee
- Betty White
- Andy Cohen
- Marc LaForce
- Steve Jobs
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Craig J. Venter PhD + Daniel Gibson
- trapped miners ~ of Chile
- Stephen Hawking PhD
- Warren Buffett
- Cory Booker
- Hillary Clinton
- Michele Bachmann
- Barack Obama
- Elizabeth Warren
- Katy Perry
- Ryan Schreiber
- Christian Bale
- Lee Unkrich
- Johnny Depp
- Mark Bittman
- Jon Stewart + Stephen Colbert
- Conan O’Brien
- Florence + the Machine
- Geoffrey Canada
- Paul Ryan
- Carrie Fisher
- Marco Rubio
- George Clooney
- Mitt Romney
- Rafael Nadal
- Anna Bligh
- Salvatore Giunta
- Colin Firth
- Chris Christie
- Andy Carvin
- David Petraeus
- Jeff Bridges
- Clinton Cragg
- Vladimir Putin
- Scott Brown
- Kamala Harris
- Robert Gates
- Marisol Valles Garcia
- Lionel Messi
- Dick Costolo
- Roger Ebert
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- Charles Ferguson
- Cecile Richards
- Trey Parker + Matt Stone
- Oprah Winfrey
- Sandra Bullock
- Derrick Rossi
- Matt Damon
- Jamie Oliver
- David Drummond
- Yukio Edano
- Siddhartha Mukherjee
- James Franco
- Li Chengpeng
- Mumford + sons
- Rene Redzepi
- Natalie Portman
- V.S. Ramachandran
- Christopher Nolan
- Ricky Gervais
- Christine Loh + Joanne Ooi
— notes —
* aka = also known as
* AI = artificial intelligence
* US = the United States