For creating solutions to an existing crisis, for embodying the opportunities and dangers of the age of tech titans, for leading the most daring and disruptive transformations of society, for all of this. Elon Musk is the person of the year 2021 for the weekly Time. For the magazine, his influence is unique on Earth and beyond.
Elon Musk is the richest person in the world, but he is also one of the most entrepreneurially daring ones. “In a year in which the protest for social inequalities has grown”, writes the editorial staff of Time, “the structures and the world around us are shaped by products and ideas of the richest men in the world“. Not only the creator of Tesla and SpaceX, but also Jeff Bezos by Amazon and Mark Zuckerberg which turned Facebook into Meta.
There is not a single word to tell Musk. Time uses “Clown, genius, provocative, visionary, industrialist, showman, scoundrel”. He is the one “who aspires to save our planet and get us a new one to inhabit”. He is also the “thoughtful blue-skinned god-man who invents electric cars and moves to Mars.”
Launch satellites into orbit and create petrol-less and almost driverless cars. It is the power of ideas, but also that of playing with money, not of properties. “With a flick of the finger, the stock market goes up or down. An army of devotees hangs on his lips “ writes the magazine. He is a communicator with gestures and businesses even more than with words. “He is a player in robots and solar, cryptocurrency and climate”.
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Time remembers her social skills, but also a child’s story with the Asperger’s syndrome, bullied victim raised in South Africa, Canadian by passport and naturalized by the US. At the age of 10, the passion for programming, he studied at university between Canada and the USA. Today he is certainly a divisive fifty-year-old, so much so that on social networks there are already dozens of comments against the choice of the newspaper. Readers had lived online by choosing Jair Bolsonaro, the Brazilian president, and Donald Trump as runner-up.
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