Generally, people consider the Big Tech promoters as the tech heroes. However, the reality is different. The World Wide Web was considered by the European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva. CERN is known for its research in physics. Tim Bernes Lee, a graduate in physics from Britain was employed in CERN. He conceived the idea of a system where the universities share their knowledge through a computer-based knowledge sharing system. It should be available free of cost and should be open to all. Thus the Web was born in Switzerland in 1989 and was fathered by a Britisher.

The US Defence establishment too promoted innovation. It formatted the rules for sending data from one computer to another. It forms the foundation on which the Internet is built. These rules are called TCP/IP and were invented by people employed by the U.S. Defence Advanced Projects Agency (DAPA) in the 1970s. Internet is thus the invention of the USA.

Wikipidia helps its 55 million users to get information about persons and things we do not know. It is a no profit organisation, founded by Jimmy Wales, an Albamion born in the US. However, he is a British citizen.

AI is the most pathbreaking innovation of the last 500 years. Geoffrey Hinton, Wimbledon-born, Cambridge educated and with a PhD from Edinburgh thought of the key idea of ‘artificial neural networks’. It is a mathematical technique that mimics the processing of the information in CNS. Dr. Hinton later moved to university of Toronto. He met there Youshua Bengio and Yann LeCun, both of French origin. They collaborated and implemented these ideas in practice in 2017. It gave a boost to AI. What other countries thought to be a foolish experiment was funded by the Canadian authorities.

These three innovation of world wide web, Wikipedia and AI have been made by people not from the Big Tech industry.