In the fine old tradition of magazine lists of powerful people—check out Slate’s Top Right!—comes The Newsweek Daily Beast Digital Power Index, a paean to potentates whose influence is measured in terabytes and retweets. Here are the sultans of Silicon Valley, from celebrity CEOs like SpaceX’s Elon Musk to behind-the-scenes shakers like “super-angel” Ron Conway. Here are the nerd heroes of computer culture, like Linux creator Linus Torvalds and Ruby founder Yukihiro Matsumoto. And here are the information age’s insurgents, like Wikileaks’ Julian Assange, and its philosophers, like author and NYU professor Clay Shirky.
In all, the magazine picked 100 digital luminaries across 10 categories—“Innovators,” “Revolutionaries,” “Opinionists,” etc.—plus 11 lifetime achievement honorees. Not counting three groups, that’s 108 people. And 99 of them, by my count, are men.
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