On the Record: Larry Brilliant

摘要

When Google's founders decided to channel some of their company's fantastic wealth into solving world problems, they chose a man to lead the effort whose life story is a marriage of charity and technology. Larry Brilliant, 63, has amply lived up to his portentous surname as a leader of the World Health Organization's smallpox eradication effort in the 1970s and later as a cofounder of a pioneering online community, the Well.