it is quite possible that more peoples livelihood economies in 2020 depend on eric yuan than anyone else- i welcome your alternative nominations though equally the tools we most need to survive from 2020 are not really about one person they are about what empowers life critical actions by and for all of us wherever we deliver community/last mile service

Eric S. Yuan

CEO & Founder, Zoom

Eric S. Yuan. Mr. Yuan is the founder of our company and has served as the Chairman of our board directors, President and Chief Executive Officer since June 2011. From May 2007 to June 2011, Mr. Yuan served as Corporate Vice President of Engineering at Cisco Systems, Inc., a multinational technology company. Mr. Yuan served in various roles, most recently as Vice President of Engineering, at WebEx Communications, Inc., an internet company, from August 1997 until its acquisition by Cisco Systems, Inc. in May 2007. Mr. Yuan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Math from Shandong University of Science & Technology and a Master’s degree in engineering from China University of Mining & Technology

you might say that while personal computers connected more peoples worldwide than ever before email -eg america online steve case and web browsing -berners lee- offered the greatest freedom to communicate
 - text and skype initially empowered the most life matter (humanly loving) connections worldwide but then tools valued by the two-third majority of humans in the east:wechat copied by whatsapp, and zoom copied by teams became what peoples relied on most

where would the vast majority of students , teachers and tele-workers be without zoom from virus spring 2020- my father hosted some of the earliest debates on futurising  the purpose of telecommuting in the 1960s- before he died in 2010 he identified his all time greatest hero of human sustainability as coalitions of what has become the largest societal business economy - gravitated by sir fazle abed

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more on entering the age of data clouds from 2010 -nb more data on tracing individual human interactions has been collected from birth of mobile devices than ever before becuase these devices were locationally tracked by satellite gps- in actuality the mobile phones is the first of an unknowable number of devices -now called the internet of things- agriculture uses eg unmanned drones; cties traffic and safety services depend not just on smart cameras but poentially robotics imitating any of humans 5 senses but able to do far more analysis in a few seconds than a human brain can do in a lifetime- the way we peoples humannise aridficial intelligence is to map what data they use transparently- america who had up to ten years lead on this at year 2000 has seenits public servants completely fail to keep up with this transformational diagnosis- governments needed enginners not lawyers and numbers professions making rules that have resulted in the biggest western organisations also being trhe west's and in somecases the world's least sustainable systems ever

personal devices moved on to text and then smart mobiles-while apple invented the first proprietary smart phone network, it was the open source kernel of torvaulds that google turned into android and which south korean samsung and then chinese companies made economical connecting peoples globally geography is such that 65% of people are eastern, 15% are north western, 15% are southern, and up to 5% are currently most impacted by climate making these geographically racist terms all but irrelevant

- you can ask of all these tools were they free or were they data collection systems -this is where we are in 2020- but wester media has faked this issue with its first comer advantages all the way to the banking scams of 2008- agian a western invention

but since usa has not got any examples of big data serving the people's sustainability goals, what has become washington dc's total abuse of asians who have piloted some solutions disgraces the 6 western members of the g8 who anyway were together with russia and japan the main actors of the colonial era of slavery, genocide and underclasses which ended in 2 world wars
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comparison of berners lee and eric yuan
while i hope eric does become one of the greatest billion-anthropists of all time, i am reminded of tim berners lee- the first to free all os because he never wanted to be a billionaire but wanted to hub out of a university - mit- which tried to keep all of us free

i am reminded of how the bbc in 2012 disgraced the whole english speaking world - instead of launching a curriculum from the london olympics of what did berners lee mean by the internet as i dreamed of it we have not seen it yet and not begun to app it to britain's greatest invention the national health service it gave somewhat less coverage to this than it did to particular gold medal winners - one reason why the bust olympics must be while designed by east if sports arts fashion are to free the lives matter generation as youth'd borderless movement