Rolling Stone released its list of The RS 100: Agents of Change in its April 2 issue. Seventeen percent of the list included people from the CE industry, with several others in peripheral CE industries. Not bad for a music magazine, but surely they could have found other Change Agents more worthy than Kate Winslet (No. 51), Andy Samberg (No. 65) or Taylor Swift (No. 100).
Here are the selections that might interest TWICE readers:
2. Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin
3. Apple’s Steve Jobs
13. Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto
15. Twitter’s Evan Williams
20. Julius Genachowski, President Obama’s pick for FCC chair
25. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg
26. Bill Gates, Microsoft
29. Jeff Bezos, Amazon
31. Angela Belcher, battery bioengineer
33. Netflix’s Reed Hastings
44. Harmonix’s Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy
50. John Hanke, director of Google Maps
55. Tim Westergren, Pandora CEO
60. Avner Ronen, Boxee
68. John Lasseter, chief creative officer of Pixar
73. Cliff Bleszinski, Epic Games
84. Will Wright, creator of The Sims
Other CE-related picks included:
17. Nate Lewis, a chemistry professor who’s focused on energy solutions
56. Amory Lovins — his Rocky Mountain Institute was said to be hired by Wal-Mart to “explore ways the company might cut costs and reduce waste.”
77. Shai Agassi, an entrepreneur “dedicated to creating a ‘smart’ network of electric-car-charging stations that do everything from charge cars when they’re not being drive to custom-program their radio stations.”
