Chris Hughes — American Businessman

Chris Hughes is an American entrepreneur who co founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory and networking site Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Andrew McCollum. He was briefly the publisher and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, after purchasing the magazine in 2012... (wikipedia)

My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.
What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas.
The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.
I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.
By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.