Not only Elon Musk: 4 people that bring future

May soon move into monetary transactions messengers, and sending the drones will deliver. All thanks to these people.

1. Bill Gates

Bill Gates - Microsoft co-founder and developer of the first Windows. The next version of its still holdWhat is the most popular operating system? first position in the rankings of the most popular operating systems for computers.

Now Bill Gates continues to make the world a better and smarter, but not as a developer or a Microsoft executive, as well as a free investor and philanthropist. He actively funding technological developments in different spheres and talks about them, attracting more money.

For example, the former head of Microsoft invests in energy companies that seek replace the use of nuclear energy enriched uranium-235 is more affordable depleted U-238. Bill Gates also funding the development of gene therapy for the HIV and invests in startups for the production of artificial meat.

Some of these initiatives have already borne fruit. For example, the burgers with meat grown by Impossible Foods served in American restaurants.

2. Pavel Durov

Pavel Durov is known primarily as the creator of "VKontakte" - the most popularSocial networks in figures social network in Russia. She appeared a little later, "Odnoklassniki", but immediately won the main service position for the communication, replacing the rest of the Internet for millions of young people are.

Durov left the company in 2014, but the success came again. The second project - is of international importance - was the messenger Telegram. Without having to start anything, except the name and major competitors, Durov has developed the main idea: a service must be safe, and correspondence - confidential. In an interview with The New York Times, Paul toldOnce Celebrated In Russia, The Programmer Pavel Durov Chooses ExileThat the idea came to him when he knocked on the door commandos, and he did not know how to report it to his brother without the knowledge of the security services.

The security of correspondence, nimble operation, built-in cloud service, as well as thousands of stickers, bots and channels made Telegram popular: it is used byWhatsApp, WeChat and Facebook Messenger Apps - Global Messenger Usage, Penetration and Statistics more than 200 million people.

MESSENGER continues to evolve and grow into new functions. Perhaps, in the spring 2020 on the basis Telegram earnDurov offered investors 77% return of investment in ICO Telegram its cryptocurrency Gram. In 2018, investors have invested in it $ 1.7 billion, one of the shareholders was Roman Abramovich.

According to the plan, Gram will not be another Bitcoin or Ethereum, but a real alternative to Visa and MasterCard. This will be the first mass cryptocurrency whose ownership is easily mastered by any user of the messenger.

3. Jeff Bezos

Founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos is knownForbes 400: Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett remain the richest people in the US not only as the richest man in the world, but also as a visionary, investing in advanced technologies.

Bezos founded Amazon in 1994. Then it was a small online bookstore. Today - the world's largest marketplace, where you can find almost everything. In addition to sales, Amazon is engaged in manufacturing, for example, the Kindle and e-books clever Speaker Echo with its voice assistant Alexa.

Amazon has pushed the huge flow of orders come to grips with the improvement of internal logistics, optimization of warehouse operations and delivery. To this end, the company began to use artificial intelligence with machine learning. Bezos entrepreneurial abilities manifested themselves in this time: Amazon began offering designed to break in and inside trading platform to external customers technology. So on Amazon Web Services. Who uses the developments of the company, for example, Toyota. Artificial intelligence helps to train the automaker unmanned vehicles.

In 2000, Jeff Bezos founded a private aerospace company, Blue Origin. Goals from her ambitious - to return humans to the moon. The first lunar landing (so far without the people) is plannedBlue Origin is preparing to explore the Moon in 2020.

Amazon is also considered a pioneer in the development of unmanned dostavschikov. It should get permission from the air services and the sky filled with hundreds of drones with the logo of the company Bezos and parcels in yellow suitcase.

4. Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg - one of the developers and founders of the Facebook social network, which is now used by over 2 billion people. In 2019 on the basis of the platform began testing a new cryptocurrency Libra. according toWhat Facebook's Cryptocurrency Means: 6 Predictions financial analysts, for operations with Facebook it will not take a commission from the user, and the exchange rate It will be based on the unit value of several currencies, which will provide its relative stability.

However, Zuckerberg is known not only as a successful businessman. He joined the program "The Giving Pledge" - initiative of billionaires to pay more than half their money to charity. In 2015, he and his wife Priscilla Chan Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has created a fund - it steam and decided to transfer 99% Facebook shares. Fund money has been directed, for example, for the treatment and prevention of a large number of diseases and also for visualization of cell biological research.

Zuckerberg allocates funds to public schools and start-ups in the field of educationFor example Code.org organization to the next level of computer science lessons. He also invested in Vicarious - a startup that has been studying the neocortex functions (cortex) and attempt to translate it into computer code. If the company's research run successfully, artificial intelligence can be compared with a human.