I don't think Elon Musk is a very good candidate for this year. Last year seemed more eventful for both Tesla and SpaceX.
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#22Narendra Modi!! Surprised to find him listed here. I am an Indian.
Second that. He may be a good or bad politician depending on the person's viewpoint, but there is almost nothing he has done for technology.
The closest he comes to tech that is covered on HN is to have covered a lot of area in his home state with solar projects.
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#23I want to vote for Elon Musk too, but Edward Snowden is too important. Also, why are there no women listed? Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer made lots of news this year.
I think putting Snowden on here is cheating, especially among this crowd. Yes, what he did was extremely important. Yes what he did had a tech impact, but the majority of the impact was societal, IMHO. I voted for him on Time, but here I have to vote for Musk.
All tech's impact is societal. That's the point of tech.
And Snowden's technical ability was instrumental to what he did. So I think he fits quite nicely into the category.
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#24Naval Ravikant
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#25I want to vote for Elon Musk too, but Edward Snowden is too important. Also, why are there no women listed? Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer made lots of news this year.
As a European I don't even know who Sheryl Sandberg is, but googling her it seems she's not really practising what she preaches: http://valleywag.gawker.com/revealed-sheryl-sandbergs-unpaid... ;)
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#26Would love to know who at HN had the epiphany that their Person of the Year in Tech list left out Marissa Mayer & Sheryl Sandberg. As of 9:38am today it was 100% male; checked back at 10:05 and there they are, tacked on at the end.
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#27Narendra Modi is not a technology person. He's a factional leader in India. Apparently responsible for the deaths of a few thousand people, no less.
Modi 2014.
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#28I want to vote for Elon Musk too, but Edward Snowden is too important. Also, why are there no women listed? Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer made lots of news this year.
Edward Snowden is much less about "tech" and a lot more about privacy revolving mobile phones, internet and a lot more, like banking information, centralised processing of CCTV camera footage, etc, etc.
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#29Who are these people and why is Richard Stallman among them?
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#30Is it possible to remove Narendra Modi's name from this list before someone creates a Facebook meme out of this page.