Whether or not he is remembered for it, except for Tim Berners Lee no one else holds a candle to him in that regard. I had enough years "before" that the years "after" and what his work effected delineates it as the most profoundly disruptive period in history by a wide margin. It has become a sixth sense, so integrated with our cognition that we scarcely notice it. And he wants to take that integration much, much further.

From what the article discloses about his personality I don't much like him but will never deny his inestimable impact.