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For: Luis Diaz
Friday, November 15
Elon Musk is named TIME Magazine's 2021 Character of the Year
The Time magazine named Tesla founder Elon Musk as Character of the Year
East 2021, Musk achieved position its two companies as the most prosperous and with a global vision , achieving the largest 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
According to Time, for nearly a century, the magazine has named a Person of the Year
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 fly astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972 . In May, Musk hosted an episode of the influential television show Saturday Night Live. In October, the car rental giant Hertz announced that it planned to add 80, 000 Tesla to his fleet .
As if that were not enough, this 2021, the tycoon shook the Stock markets after he put some of his Tesla shares up for sale through his official Twitter account, that action cost him billions.
According to Time, each year, when announcing in December who the Person of the Year should be, “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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