The people featured in the Book are in bold.
- Douglas Adams
- Karl Auerbach
- Paul Baran
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Adam Brate
- Vannevar Bush
- Loic Dachary
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- K. Eric Drexler
- Alexandre Dulaunoy
- Doug Engelbart
- William Gibson
- Abbie Hoffman
- Douglas Hofstadter
- Mark Hosler
- Harold Innis
- Alan Kay
- Bill Joy
- Len Kleinrock
- Jaron Lanier
- Lawrence Lessig
- Steven Levy
- J. C. R. Licklider
- John McCarthy
- Marshall McLuhan
- Marvin Minsky
- Ted Nelson
- Seymour Papert
- Jean Piaget
- Eric S. Raymond
- Larry Roberts
- Claude Shannon
- Richard M. Stallman
- Neal Stephenson
- Bruce Sterling
- Ivan Sutherland
- Alan Turing
- Jules Verne
- John von Neumann
- Larry Wall
- Norbert Wiener
- Brian Winston
- Stephen Wolfram