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Steve Jobs Nominated for Time Magazine "Person of the Year"

Wednesday November 9, 2011 2:53 pm PST by Jordan Golson

NBC Nightly News Anchor Brian Williams has nominated Apple cofounder Steve Jobs for Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" award. Williams said in his speech nominating Jobs:
One guy, who changed our world, and I said to Seth Meyers as we walked across Sixth Avenue, "Just look with me on this one block walk at how he changed the world around us. Look at how he changed the world." Not only did he change the world, but he gave us that spirit again that something was possible that you could look at a piece of plastic or glass and move your finger-- that's outlandish. You could make things bigger or smaller like that. "Oh the places you'll go" and oh the way you will change forever the music and television industries. So may he rest in peace, Steve Jobs, and the spirit he represents, are my nominee for Person of the Year.
If selected, Jobs would be the first person to receive the award posthumously. Steve Jobs was a mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, 2010's Person of the Year.

Time's Person of the Year is awarded to "a person, couple, group, idea, place, or machine that "for better or for worse, ...has done the most to influence the events of the year.'"

Past technology-related awards have gone to American Scientists in 1960, the Apollo 8 Astronauts in 1968, "You" in 2006, representing the individual content creator on the Internet, and "The Computer" in 1982.

The award will be presented in December.

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aluren
98 months ago

Just cause he died?


Well his company became the most valuable company this year, so it's fitting.
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Apple OC
98 months ago
Zuckerberg was person of the year last year ... Steve should of had this honour years ago :apple:
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dethmaShine
98 months ago
Nominate?

Just award him goddamnit.
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coolbreeze
98 months ago
This is a done deal. He will win.
Rating: 21 Votes
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TwinCities Dan
98 months ago
Will *LTD* be available to accept the award on his behalf?
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ouimetnick
98 months ago
Congratulations if you do get it. Steve certainly deserved it. His family and friends will be proud.
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Lone Deranger
98 months ago
I still can’t believe Zuckerberg won the award last year. Just like Obama winning the Nobel peace price, the prestige of both these awards has been tainted as a result.
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macrumorsuser10
98 months ago
Things invented or brought to the mainstream masses by S. Jobs:

- Personal computers (Apple II)
- GUI interface (Mac)
- Movie computer animation (Pixar)
- Legal music and movie digital purchasing (iTunes)
- Personal music players (iPod)
- Smartphone (iPhone)
- Tablet device (iPad)

Also, the WWW was invented by T. Berners-Lee on a NeXT workstation, another one of his creations.
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gmcalpin
98 months ago

I think he should be inducted into the hall of ingeniosity too. Forget the Androidiots

…"Ingeniosity"?
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Malus Deus
98 months ago

Just cause he died? I was listening to Howard Stern, he literarly thinks that Steve Jobs personally invented the mp3 player and the touch screen. The touch screen in my Nintendo DS and pocket PC both in 2004 were invented by Steve Jobs. That's the reality for so many.


Lol, Howard Stern is an idiot. :apple:
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