So, if you were coming to Silicon Valley and you could meet any luminary (Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Gina Bianchi, Eric Schmidt, Meg Whitman, and so on…) and hear them speak/give a talk– who would you like to meet?
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Those are all the usual (semi-corporate) crowd, and just not terribly interesting to me. I’d do the focused-question thing, pick a huge technology trend, and then find people who matter and ask “where’s it going”
For example, for semantics on the web. 5 people to have lunch with (1 per day on the imaginary trip):
Brewster Kahle
Danny Hillis
Tantek Celik
Ari Balogh
Udi Manber
Not what you asked, but what I felt like answering :-)