Over the past month the BBC have been running a series of programmes to decide the most influential individual of the 20th century in several categories such as Sport, Science and Leaders. The public then voted for their choice, before the winners of each category went up against each other in the final. The winner was announced to be World War Two code breaker, Alan Turing. I feel that the winner and the shortlist (which can be found here) definitely have a British bias, so I thought I'd ask what you guys think. So Phuks, who do you think was the most influential figure of the 20th Century?
Well it definitely depends on your perspective. First thoughts are that it's giving Turing way to much credit but for Old England the influence would be huge.
My pick for biggest influence is the internet and I cannot think of any one person who is most responsible for that. Humanity has become a hive species anyway(accelerated by the internet) so, with that in mind, I disagree with the whole concept of picking one person out as the most influential.