If you don’t know Tim O’Reilly, you should. He’s been a driving force behind the commercial Internet, Web 2.0, blogging and online bookselling. His mission is simple: to change the world. And he certainly seems to be doing it.

By Jim Calder

Technology is fundamentally transforming publishing. From generating ideas to packaging information to delivering products and beyond, everything is changing. Tim O’Reilly, the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, the renowned Silicon Valley-based computer/technology publisher, believes that many publishers are woefully unprepared. His company, one of the leading computer-book publishing companies in the world, is at the forefront of the technologies that have directly shaped publishing of the past, present and future.