Linus Torvalds interview, part three: 'All my daughter wanted for Christmas was a polymerase chain reaction machine'
In the final part of a three-part interview, Linux creator and Millennium Technology Prize winner Linus Torvalds talks about the new frontiers of technology - and the 'benefits' of his own 'cult of personality'
Q. What technology do you consider has brought about the biggest changes to life as we live it today? You can't make a big difference in technology without actually changing people's lives to some degree....
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