MIT Announces Top 35 Innovators Under 35

nursegirl writes "MIT's Technology Review has posted their top 35 innovators under the age of 35 for 2006. The 2006 Young Innovator is Joshua Schachter, of del.icio.us fame. The 2006 Young Humanitarian is Christina Galitsky from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Galitsky has done various projects related to energy efficiency, from introducing energy efficient practices to wineries, to helping bring stoves that use less wood to Sudanese refugees, to working on cheap ways to filter arsenic from wells in Bangladesh. Technology Review has also published a related article, titled 10 Ways To Think about Innovation."

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Re:now you now where ageism comes from

[nv5]

It lays the idea in peoples' minds that innovators can only be young.

unfortunately, there seems to be some evidence for a high correlation of exactly that. If you google ..., I mean, if you use the search engine Google to look for "Why productivity fades with age" http://www.google.com/search?q=Why%20Productivity% 20Fades%20with%20Age

endorsement of web 2.0??

[Anonymous Coward]

It seems that Web 2.0 (tagging, folksonomy, etc. etc.) has been endorsed by the selection of the del.icio.us founder as the top innovator. Although I agree that del.icio.us is a really useful site (I use it myself quite a bit), I have a question about the general Web 2.0 philosophy.

Once user-generated tags start driving revenue on the web (and I'm sure its nearing that stage), what's to stop bots from creating "Web 2.0" spam? Is it going to be as simple as asking users to type in garbled text?