If you don’t subscribe to Business 2.0, stop by your local newstand and pick up March’s issue. I’m reading an article about the commercialization of space. Absolutely great stuff. Just as interesting, the leaders funding these ventures made their millions and billions from computers & the web. Here is a list: Elon Musk of Paypal, Paul Allen of Microsoft, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, and John Carmack of iD software (Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake.) Really incredible stuff.

While people like Paul Allen a just putting out the cash, guys like John Carmack are actively involved in the science behind the stuff. All of these guys have had a dramatic impact on where computers and the internet are today, but that wasn’t enough, they are laying the foundations of where humans could be headed over the next several hundred years and beyond.