Alexander Emerick "Alex" Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American talk radio host, actor and filmmaker. His syndicated news/talk show The Alex Jones Show, based in Austin, Texas, airs via the Genesis Communication Network over 60 AM, FM, and shortwave radio stations across the United States and on the Internet. His websites include Infowars.com and PrisonPlanet.com.
2.Ray Kurzweil
Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil; born February 12, 1948) is an American author, scientist, inventor and futurist. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He is the author of several books on health,artificial intelligence (AI), trans-humanism, the technological singularity, and futurism.
3.I'Avatar
Meadows, Mark Stephen. I, avatar: the culture and consequences of having a second life. Berkeley, CA: New Riders, 2008. Print.
4.Mark Stephen Meadows
Mark Stephen Meadows is an American author and artist. In addition to his illustration, books, and travelogues he also develops software. He is the co-inventor of several US patents relating to artificial intelligence and avatars, and he lectures internationally on this work.
Meadows is known for his hitchhiking adventures, specifically for visiting Baghdad in 2003, and his interviews with terrorists in Sri Lanka. He holds a USCG captain's license.
5.The Singularity Is Near
Kurzweil, Ray. The singularity is near: when humans transcend biology. New York: Viking, 2005. Print.
6.Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs; February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman and inventor widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs was co-founder and previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney.
7.Stephen Glass
Stephen Glass, J.D. (born 1972) is an American former journalist, who came to prominence when it was uncovered that he had fabricated several magazine articles in 1998. Over a three-year period as a young rising star at The New Republic(TNR), from 1995 to 1998, Glass fabricated quotations, sources, and even entire events in articles he wrote for that magazine and others. Most of Glass' articles were of the entertaining and humorous type, some of them based entirely on fictional events. His career at TNR was dramatized in the film Shattered Glass, where Glass was portrayed by Hayden Christensen. Glass fictionalized his own story in The Fabulist, a 2003 novel whose protagonist is named "Stephen Aaron Glass". Glass holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and since 2004, he has worked as a paralegal at the Beverly Hills law firm of Carpenter, Zuckerman & Rowley.
8.Marco Tempest
Marco Tempest is a Swiss magician based in New York City. He is reputed for his multimedia magic and use of interactive technology and computer graphics in his illusions and presentations. He stars in the eight part television series "The Virtual Magician". broadcasting in over 50 countries.
9.Wael Ghonim
Wael Ghonim embodies the youth who constitute the majority of Egyptian society — a young man who excelled and became a Google executive but, as with many of his generation, remained apolitical due to loss of hope that things could change in a society permeated for decades with a culture of fear.
Over the past few years, Wael, 30, began working outside the box to make his peers understand that only their unstoppable people power could effect real change. He quickly grasped that social media, notably Facebook, were emerging as the most powerful communication tools to mobilize and develop ideas.
By emphasizing that the regime would listen only when citizens exercised their right of peaceful demonstration and civil disobedience, Wael helped initiate a call for a peaceful revolution.
The response was miraculous: a movement that started with thousands on Jan. 25 ended with 12 million Egyptians removing Hosni Mubarak and his regime. What Wael and the young Egyptians did spread like wildfire across the Arab world.
10.Reed Hastings
Reed Hastings was a Marine and a Peace Corps worker before he became an entrepreneur. As he says, "Once you have hitchhiked across Africa with 10 bucks in your pocket, starting a business doesn't seem too intimidating."
And what a business he started. Reed, 50, had the idea for Netflix after misplacing a videocassette and racking up a big late fee. He was on his way to work out when he realized the gym had a much better business model than his video-rental store: pay $30 to $40 a month and exercise as little or as much as you want.
Netflix first revolutionized entertainment distribution using one of the oldest methods of delivery, the U.S. mail. Now it distributes everywhere — TV, computer, iPad or game console.
Reed's innovation has changed how the entertainment business reaches its audience and how that audience is able to access content. I am thrilled to be part of this game-changing pioneer's next move: the first original series for Netflix, House of Cards, to be directed by David Fincher.
Blockbuster was sold at auction in April. Meanwhile, Reed has figured out that giving consumers what they want and how they want it — or even better, how they never even knew they could have it — is the business model of the future.
11.Marc Zuckerburg
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known for co-creating the social networking site Facebook, of which he is chief executive andpresident. It was co-founded as a private company in 2004 by Zuckerberg and classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while they were students at Harvard University. In 2010, Zuckerberg was named Time magazine's Person of the Year. As of 2011, his personal wealth was estimated to be $17.5 billion.
12.Peter Vesterbacka
Finnish game developer at Rovio Mobile who created the popular Angry Birds Game.
13.The Bible
14.Convergence Culture:Where old and new media collide
Jenkins, Henry. Convergence culture where old and new media collide. New York: New York University Press, 2006. Print.
15. Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media
Davies, Nick. Flat Earth news: an award-winning reporter exposes falsehood, distortion and propaganda in the global media. London: Vintage, 2009. Print.
16.Food Inc.
Weber, Karl. Food, Inc.: how industrial food is making us sicker, fatter and poorer; and what you can do about it : a participant guide. New York: PublicAffairs, 2009. Print.
17.Introducing Semiotics
Cobley, Paul, and Litza Jansz.Introducing semiotics. London: Icon, 2010. Print.
18. The Fabulist
Glass, Stephen. The Fabulist: a Novel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. Print.
19. Losing the News: The Future of the News that Feeds Democracy (Institutions of American Democracy)
Jones, Alex S.. Losing the news: the uncertain future of the news that feeds democracy. New York: Oxford University Press, 20102009. Print.
20. Mediated: How the Media Shapes Our World and the Way We Live in It
Zengotita, Thomas. Mediated: how the media shapes your world and the way you live in it. Pbk. ed. New York: Bloomsbury ;, 2006. Print.
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