Time has been selecting personalities of the year for 94 years. Last year, he named US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris as elected. A year earlier, he had selected Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg. She was 16 years old at the time and was the youngest person to receive this award.
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“The richest man in the world does not own a house and has been selling his fortune lately. It launches satellites into orbit and uses the Sun. He drives a car he created that doesn’t use gasoline and barely needs a driver. With the snap of his finger, the stock market rises or falls sharply. An army of devotees hangs on each of his statements, “Time characterizes this year’s chosen personality, who dreams of conquering Mars.
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Musk is the founder and CEO of SpaceX, whose Falcon 9 missiles and Dragon ships transport cargo and human crews into orbit around the Earth, including the International Space Station (ISS). It is also developing the Starship-Super Heavy transport system to transport more than a hundred tons of cargo at a time or up to a hundred people on deep space expeditions. It is also building the Starlink satellite network to provide Internet access from anywhere on Earth.
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Musk is also the head of the American carmaker Tesla, manages the start-up Neuralink, which produces brain chips, and heads the infrastructure company The Boring Company.
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Hitler i Stalin
Time by Personality of the Year recognizes people who have had a positive or negative impact on the biggest events of the year. In the past, for example, the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler (in 1938, before the outbreak of World War) and the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, two times in 1939 and 1942, became personalities of Time magazine.
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