🔴 Mind Blowers 🔴 Paradigm Shifters 🔴 Enterprising Idealists and many more... Introducing Newsweek's inaugural list of 50 visionaries, innovators and pioneers who are transforming the world through technology. NewsweekDisruptors Read more:
's inaugural list of 50 visionaries, innovators and pioneers who are transforming the world through technology
At first glance, Lizzo, the singer, rapper and style icon, might not seem to have a lot in common with Katalin Karikó, the molecular biologist whose research on mRNA technology enabled rapid development of the COVID-19 vaccine. Nor perhaps does Bela Bajaria, the, seem naturally connected to scientist Tammy Hsu, who is making eco-friendly blue jeans, or engineer Amay Bandodkar, who is developing batteries powered by human sweat.
The Oxford Dictionary defines"disruption" as radical change to an existing industry or market due to technological innovation. The work being done by our 50 inductees in the 2021 Disruptors class certainly fits that description. What truly sets these pioneers apart, however, is their humanity.
Consider neuroscientist Aadeel Akhtar, who was inspired to develop affordable human-like bionic limbs by seeing a little girl missing a leg using a tree branch as a crutch during a family trip to Pakistan when he was 7 years old. Or energy entrepreneur Bill Gross, whose interest in carbon emissions capture was sparked by memories of his family living through the 1973 oil embargo, getting by on $5 of rationed gas every other day.
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