"Life" magazine, in their special "Millenium" issue, published 1999, named Thomas Edsion as the most influential man of the past 1000 years.
Others rounding out the top 10 were Jefferson, Magellan, Newton, Pasteur, and Martin Luther.
Thoughts on this? I personally think this was an excellent choice.

I've seen worse.
My top 10 (in no particular order) would be Newton, da Vinci, Freud, Darwin, Marx, Edison, Faraday, Wellington, Einstein, Zhukov.

So many to choose from to narrow it down to 10, and then there are different types of feats, scientific discoveries, military victories, philosophical writings, and so on. Newton, Freud, Edison, Darwin, Gutenberg, Pasteur, Ford, Jefferson, Marx, Tung, Stalin, Hitler, Temujin, Galilei, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Columbus, and many, many more...

PS- who is this Edsion you're talking about???? :D I mean, Edison was a great trailblazer, but edsion sounds like his annoying jewish cousin ;)

you cant forget Al Gore, inventor of the internet :D

and the greatest war hero and leader of the last thousand years, john Kerry and his 4 month swift boat tour

Originally posted by rendova
"Life" magazine, in their special "Millenium" issue, published 1999, named Thomas Edsion as the most influential man of the past 1000 years.
Others rounding out the top 10 were Jefferson, Magellan, Newton, Pasteur, and Martin Luther.
Thoughts on this? I personally think this was an excellent choice.

Edison was brilliant, but he left a lot to be desired in the ethics department.

Nikolai Tesla would definitely be on my list. Also De Cartes, Newton, Pasteur, Guttenberg, the Wright brothers, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Darwin, and Einstein.