When Time broke its own rules
Global icons who shaped the world
When nature and the planet took center stage
The controversial nature of influence
YOUR GOAL
Master of The humans and machines that shaped Time's covers
schopenhauer TIME's Machine of the Year
No human! No human! The machine took the crown!
schopenhauer Time named 'You' as the Person of the Year in 2006 to celebrate the explosion of user-generated internet content.
schopenhauer In 1982, Time bypassed humans entirely to name the personal computer as its 'Machine of the Year.'
schopenhauer Sort history's strangest years to discover when time broke its own rules.
First cover: Charles Lindbergh was named the first Man of the Year at age twenty-five in 1927.
An electronic device for storing and processing data, typically in binary form, according to instructions given to it in a variable program. In 1982, the weekly newsmagazine selected this device as its first non-human recipient of its annual title.
Why did Time editors retroactively create the 'Man of the Year' title for Charles Lindbergh?
Which British royal figure abdicated the throne in 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson?
In what year did Time officially change the award's name to the gender-neutral 'Person of the Year'?