But if Wales’s current projects grow as exponentially as Wikipedia has, he may well be reveling on the Riviera after all. “We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet,” he says happily. “I like to think about how there are about a billion people online now, and in the next five to 10 years there is going to be the next billion coming online. Interesting things are going to happen.”
Wales mugs at the 2006 Time magazine 100 Most Influential People dinner, with, from top, Mort Zuckerman, Condoleezza Rice and Arianna Huffington; and with Steven Wynn, Martha Stewart and Ralph Nader.-
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