young innovator
By anders pearson 24 Jun 2002
everytime lani comes up to visit, she leaves behind a couple of the complimentary magazines from the Delta Shuttle. usually, the tech magazines are bland Wired wannabes with fluff stories about upcoming technologies and rising dotcoms.
<p>after lani leaves, they tend to last until my next cleaning pass over the apartment when, if they’re lucky, they get a quick once-over just to make sure there isn’t actually anything of interest to me before heading into the garbage.</p>
<p>tonight i’m cleaning a little and decide to flip through the copy of <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/">Technology Review</a>. there’s an <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/tr100_0602.asp">article</a> on the top 100 young innovators (this article was, of course, depressing lani because it made her realize that at 22 years old she hadn’t yet won a nobel prize ;)</p>
<p>amongst the likes of Shawn Fanning (napster) and John Carmack (doom, quake, etc) i was quite pleasantly surprised to see <a href="http://goatee.net/">Joe Reagle</a>. Joe is a friend of <a href="http://www.miromi.org/">mimi</a>’s and goatee.net is on my regular reading list. seeing a (somewhat) familiar face in a magazine when you aren’t expecting it is kind of weird. i knew that he does all kinds of cool stuff but i never realized he was a celebrity.</p>
<p>so congratulations, Joe!</p>