Time previously named Tesla’s Musk as Person of the Year in 2021 and Zuckerberg received his laurels in 2010. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Sign up for breaking National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. “We’ve named not just individuals but also groups, more women than our founders could have imagined (though still not enough), and, on rare occasions, a concept: the endangered Earth, in 1988, or the personal computer, in 1982,” wrote Sam Jacobs, Time’s editor-in-chief. “The drama surrounding the selection of the PC over Apple’s Steve Jobs later became the stuff of books and a movie,” he continued. “This selection is the third in a series that has captured the key moments in the technological revolution of the past half-century.” Story continues below advertisement Jacobs said the “rise of the personal computer in the 1980s transformed the economy” and the “emergence of digital communities was captured famously — and infamously — by TIME naming ‘You’ as Person of the Year in 2006, with a mirrored cover.” “Hindsight shows how prescient those picks were. Now, the social internet made possible by personal digital devices is giving way to a new era, the age of artificial intelligence,” he added. Trending Now