Who will be the greatest inventor of the time in the eyes of future historians?

In the eyes of future historians, who will be the greatest inventor of the time? This is really an interesting question. The Atlantic Monthly visited a large number of technology and media leaders to get a possible list.

The first is the founder of PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX, Musk (Elon Musk), like Leonardo da Vinci and Benjamin Franklin, who have a profound impact on everything from paying to the car to the aerospace sector. For now, he is even imagining the creation of a huge pipeline that will take passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in just 35 minutes.

Amazon founder Bezos is also on the list, he started from a garage sale in Seattle, and today runs the world's largest e-commerce company, his entrepreneurial story has become a legend. In the eyes of the judges, he was even more great than Steve Jobs, because he changed the whole way of retailing, not just an industry.

Another Internet-related list is the developer of the famous sand table construction game Minecraft, the independent game Master Marcus Persson, although Minecraft appears to be an old-fashioned game, but it allows players to create anything in the virtual world for the first time. In the view of the judges, the game has a huge educational potential.

"Father of the Internet" Winter Sove (Vint Cerf) has not been forgotten by the judges, and in the 1970s, he worked with colleagues in the Advanced Technology Research Bureau of the U.S. Department of Defense to design the TCP/IP protocol and the Internet architecture, laying the foundation for today's internet age.