The Best and Brightest 3

Pick any one of the people we honor in our third-annual celebration of American innovators— Lee Sweeney or Bill Stone or Winka Dubbeldam or Paul Thompson, then dip into the work of Zach Helm and Teru Kuwayama and Yves Béhar and Colby Buzzell —and enter a new world. It's a world in which positive change bubbles up from unexpected places—where the chaos of the Iraq war breeds a new generation of leaders, where the reality craze merges with the creative imagination, where philanthropy comes from grass-roots consensus rather than corporate benefaction, where ... // 50% Remaining