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For: Luis Diaz
Saturday, July 6
Elon Musk is chosen character of the year 2021 for TIME magazine
Time magazine named Tesla founder Elon Musk as Person of the Year “for promoting the most daring and disruptive transformations in society”, for the work he is doing with his companies Tesla and SpaceX.
East 2021, Musk managed to position his two companies as the most prosperous and with a global vision , achieving the highest distinction of Time, whose annual list of the characters of the year is almost a century old.
” The person of the year is an indicator of influence, and few people have had more influence than Elon Musk on life on Earth, and potentially life off Earth as well, ”wrote Time Editor-in-Chief Edward Felsenthal.
Elon Musk (@ elonmusk) is TIME’s 2021 Person of the Year #TIMEPOY https://t.co/8Y5BhIldNs pic.twitter.com/B6h6rndjIh
— TIME (@TIME) December 13, 2021 1636677682362
According to Time, for nearly a century, the magazine has named a Person of the Year: the person or group that most influenced the 12 previous months, for better or for worse. Person of the Year is a marker of influence, and few people have had more influence than Musk in life on Earth, and potentially also in life outside Earth.
In addition to positioning itself as the Richest man in the world, Elon Musk has become a media reference, mainly due to his statements and management of his social networks, which have resulted in his having millions of followers all over the world.
In April, SpaceX won the exclusive NASA contract to take astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972. In May, Musk hosted Saturday Night Live. In October, car rental giant Hertz announced that it planned to add 100 , 04 Tesla a your fleet.
As if that were not enough, this 2021, the tycoon shook the stock markets after, through his official Twitter account, he put some of his Tesla shares up for sale, said action cost him billions .
According to Time, each year, when announcing in December who should be the Person of the Year, “we look back, but we also point to the future. Bezos was the choice in 1999 , when e-commerce was starting to take off. Zuckerberg was selected in 2010, long before it was clear what the total effect of Facebook on society would be and democracy, “said Time.
” We still don’t know to what extent Tesla, SpaceX and the companies Musk has yet to think about will change our lives. At the 40, you have plenty of time to write the future , yours and ours. Like it or not, we are now in Musk’s world, ”he added.
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