John Burdette Gage was the fifth employee of Sun Microsystems, where he is credited with creating the phrase: “The network is the computer.” He served as Chief Researcher and Vice President of the Science Office for Sun, until leaving on June 9, 2008 to join Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a partner to work on green technologies for global warming; he departed KPCB in 2010 to apply what he had learned “to broader issues in other parts of the world.” He was one of the co-founders of NetDay in 1995.
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