Who are humanities people who’ve had a major hand in shaping the Internet? Two I know of are Peter Thiel (philosophy) and Alex Karp of Palantir (‘neoclassical social theory’). Jonah Peretti wrote a cultural theory paper that’s supposedly the genesis of Buzzfeed. Who else?
Jaron Lanier is a pretty good example of an engineer with a very eclectic and broad background. Breaks the mold, really. He definitely has a significant humanist streak though.