Personalities most powerful technology in 2016 according to TIME

Personalities most powerful technology in 2016 according to TIME

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai and Yuri Milner are some of the characters in the world of technology that are changing the world, according to the American magazine Time.

"We admire the vision of an interconnected world of Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg where all people have the opportunity to exploit their talents," said Bill and Melinda Gates on two of the Titans selected by the publication in its most recent edition of the 100 most influential characters of the year.

The founder of Microsoft and his wife added that they are: "curious, ambitious, thinkers, open mind and a big heart. They have the willingness to grow and learn and care deeply about improve inequities that are seen in the world."


To do this, add that in addition to Zuckerberg created a company, Facebook, change the way the world connects, and Chan is committed to improving the health of children, the creation of his Chan Zuckerberg initiative - making a donation to 99% of their wealth means that «change the world once is not enough for them. We can't wait to see what they will do in the coming decades".

Tim Cook Director Ejecutivo de Apple also Bob Iger, president and ceoof the Walt Disney Co., reads as follows:

"The success of Director (Apple) of the value and the character that requires knowledge and according to the highest ethical standards, whocan regularly query the status quo, including the relevant conversations as a culture and a society." Tim Cook is the type of leader, said Iger.

"In his Southern mannerisms and shy behavior, is the man at the doorfor his personal beliefs. Tim is committed to the good things in the right way, at the right time and for the right reasons. As CEO, he led Apple to new heights and continue to build a brand world, widely recognized as a leader in the market and is highly respected by their values, said a Disney Executive.

Sundar Pichai, the new CEO of Google, is also part of the Titans of Time. Over it, Bill Nye, the renowned presenter of science in the United States has to say that "it has helped to change the world".

Man' science' has that Pichai was born in an environment of poverty in Chennai, India and that he discovered his aptitude for numbers when his family had its first phone at age 12.

"He is an engineer, also his wife. Engineers use science to solve problems and create things. Engineering applies a combination of logic and intuition to solve problems. It is a way of thinking that it leaves you ready to lead a company. All are waiting to see what produces after".

The physicist and Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner also appears on the list and is the scientist Stephen Hawking, his partner in the Breakthrough Starshot mission, a project that seeks to send a spaceship to Alpha Centauri system - 4.37 light years from Earth - who describes it.

"It is a kind of visionary. He sees that while many exist good causes and pressing problems, finally our chances of survival as a species depend on feeding the precious flame of knowledge", says Hawking.

"Their investments are long term. Change the culture to one more committed to science and its virtues of curiosity and reason as supporting fundamental developments but with few funds, such as the search for life in the universe and the way to interstellar travel. These projects may take decades, but if they are successful they will transform our relationship with the cosmos", says scientist on his partner.