In 1982 Steve Jobs was convinced that he would be named Time magazine’s Man of the Year, according to Walter Isaacson’s biography. He hosted the magazine’s San Francisco bureau chief, Mike Moritz, at Texaco Towers, the home of Apple’s Macintosh team, and encouraged Andy Hertzfeld, Bill Atkinson, and the rest to give interviews.
He was less than happy when Time dropped Man of the Year for 1982 and named the computer as Machine of the Year. Now, nearly 30 years later, Jobs has been nominated as Time’s Person of the Year and if he wins will be the first person to be awarded the accolade posthumously.
Among the other nominees are US Senate candidate, Elizabeth Warren, and Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian market seller who set himself on fire in protest at his treatment by public officials in in doing so sparked the Arab Spring.
Jobs was nominated by the anchor of NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams. Another US TV journalist, Bob Cringely, can be seen interviewing Jobs in a new film, dubbed The Lost interview, in some US cinemas later this month. The interview was conducted in 1995, for a PBS programme called Triumph of the Nerds, but according to Cringely, only a small part of it was used and the rest was believed lost.
The view below is a trailer for the film.
