Tuesday, September 16, 2003
Most Influential People in Communications?
For a couple more weeks, you can still vote for ten of the 20 finalist candidates for Total Telecom's Most Influential Person in Communications. The interim results at this moment show that Bill Gates is tied for the lead with Ivan Seidenberg (Verizon), Jorma Olllila (Nokia), Serge Tchuruk (Alcatel), and Li Ka-Shing (Hutchison Whampoa). Currently Dave Dorman and Mike Powell come in at #19 and #20, respectively.
Several weeks ago I held my nose and voted for a couple of TotalTele's sorry list of supposed influencers. To me, the most influential people in telecom start with Bell, Marconi, Elisha Gray, and the other early pioneers. Then there's a swatch of Internet pioneers (Baran, Kleinrock, Roberts, Cerf and their contempos) and a bunch of enabling technology inventors like Carver Mead and Bob Metcalfe. Bill Gates is in there somewhere, but saying that bean-counter herders like Seidenberg, Ollila and Li Ka-Shing are influential is like saying the tail is the key influencer of where the dog is going.
Several weeks ago I held my nose and voted for a couple of TotalTele's sorry list of supposed influencers. To me, the most influential people in telecom start with Bell, Marconi, Elisha Gray, and the other early pioneers. Then there's a swatch of Internet pioneers (Baran, Kleinrock, Roberts, Cerf and their contempos) and a bunch of enabling technology inventors like Carver Mead and Bob Metcalfe. Bill Gates is in there somewhere, but saying that bean-counter herders like Seidenberg, Ollila and Li Ka-Shing are influential is like saying the tail is the key influencer of where the dog is going.
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