Latest Game Changers: Technology and Wellness

Time for the final round of HuffPost Game Changers -- the innovators, visionaries, and leaders who are harnessing the power of new media to reshape their fields and change the world.

So far we've announced our picks in Entertainment, Green, Politics, Style, Sports, Business, Philanthropy, and Media and asked you to vote for the Ultimate Game Changer in each category. Over 1.3 million votes have already been cast.

The current leaders are:

Entertainment: NetFlix founder Reed Hastings. Green: Ken Cook of the Environmental Working Group. Politics: Haystack's Austin Heap. Style: Open Architecture Network's Cameron Sinclair. Sports: Major League Baseball's Bob Bowman. Business: Economic blogger Bill McBride. Philanthropy: Vittana's Kushal Chakrabarti. Media: Wikimedia's Sue Gardner.

Voting remains open in all categories, so be sure to weigh in.

Today we are announcing the top Game Changers in Technology and Wellness (a category that includes health, fitness, and spirituality). Look over the slideshows we've put together giving you the rundown of who we picked, why we picked them, and how they are changing the game. Then vote for the Ultimate Game Changer.

Click here to vote for the Ultimate Game Changer in Wellness and here for the Ultimate Game Changer in Technology.

We will announce the 10 Ultimate Game Changers the week of November 16, so be sure to cast your vote before then. Here for Technology, here for Wellness, here for Media, here for Philanthropy, here for Sports, here for Business, here for Politics, here for Style, here for Entertainment, and here for Green.

 

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Comments

[cyl]

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[JayZee]

I know it's too late but...I nominate Trevor Marshall as a true game changer for the wellness category.

[leduck]

Arianna...,
only two names come to mind:
Colin Campbell of ASPO
and Kenneth Deffeyes Author of the book "Hubbert's Peak, Impending world oil shortage"

why???
because the ultimate game changer in this world is MOTHER NATURE

[Benblanken]

I am disappointed in HuffPo's offerings today. You carry six features on the Fort Hood tragedy, but nothing on the names of the victims, unless you consider the Muslim terrorist to be one of the victims himself. And I would guess you do. One question about the whole affair. Here was a whole building full of troops primed to go in harm's way and presumably acquainted at least with the martial arts. Then why in God's name didn't any one of them rush the shooter and take him down? Maybe the answer will come in due time. I sure hope so.

[goldenshaman]

Your list is incomplete without Dean Ornish and Bruce Lipton.

Good gene expression through excellent nutrition is the number one wellness concept.

My vote is: None of the above.

[Intelligentia]

Madam:

By using the word "latest" does not vitiate the fact that you missed a key Game Changer in Internet Technology! Please, revise your list:


http://www.blackwebportal.com/wire/DA.cfm?ArticleID=558

His website is here: http://emeagwali.com/

[Tyrione]

He's not the ``Father of the Internet.'' Not by a long shot.

[robert234]

Arianna,You are surely someone I admire among a profession that is surely lacking. You more than help fill a big gap. It's great to see two fields, that are unparalled in ther contributions to the human race, being honored. But, the two who stand head and shoulders above all the rest----RAY KURZWEIL in technology and AUBREY DE GREY in wellnes are lamentably missing. THEY are the future.

[weatherwaxx]

The big problem here is ... it is not a game. It's our lives.

[StevenAldrich]

The game changers in wellness are inspiring but missing a key name on the list ... Dr. Mike Merzenich is renowned neuroscientist, university professor, cochlear implant inventor, brain plasticity expert and tech entrepreneur.

Dr. Merzenich is one of the few members of both the National Academy of Science and the Institue of Medicine. He was a pioneer in the discovery that the brain can rewire itself and continue to improve throughout life with the right challenges, just like the body improves through physical challenge. He has been working with people around the world to apply this science to improve the quality of life for others and is currently chief scientist at Posit Science (www.positscience.com)

[tuberider]

Bring us more like Mike ! (And perhaps less of , well, about 88% of the rest covered today.)