
"Sir Jonathan Ive
has been crowned British Visionary Innovator in a competition, run by the Intellectual Property Office. Ive won by a large margin with almost fifty per cent of the vote (46.6%). In second place was Sir Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the world wide web) with 18.8 per cent of the vote. James Goodfellow OBE (the inventor of PIN technology and the cash machine) was in third place with 15.2 per cent of the vote." Alan Turing was also nominated. If you ever needed an illustration of everything that's wrong with the technology industry today, it's this. Guy who designs the
exterior of mass-market gadgets wins over guys who actually really contributed to technology. Telling.
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2008-03-10
Seeing as it's the Intellectual Property Office, they probably think Tim Berners-Lee is some sort of anti-capitalist communist activitist because he didn't patent the www.