AppleInsider Staff
The TIME report names 20 "trailblazers, visionaries and cultural ambassadors who defined a nation" in chronological order with Jobs rounding out the list as the most recent "influential American."
TIME calls Jobs the "high priest of the computer age" and runs through a brief history of Apple and its products, and the tech guru's ultimately life-ending battle with pancreatic cancer.
From Steve Jobs' short TIME bio:
There was always something of the monkish seeker about Steve Jobs, from his days as a part-time student at Reed College in Oregon, through his Wanderjahr in Asia to his pursuit of perfection in the dazzling products he and his colleagues created.Jobs was a visionary whose great genius was for design: he pushed and pushed to make the interface between computers and people elegant, simple and delightful. He always claimed his goal was to create products that were “insanely great.†Mission accomplished.
The usual suspects like Abraham Lincoln, Henry Ford and Martin Luther King Jr. populate the rest of the top-20 while noted pugilist and outspoken racial equality proponent Mohammed Ali is both the only athlete featured and last living list member.
TIME's 20 Most Influential AmericansInfluential Americans
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Sacagawea, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Abraham Lincoln
Sitting Bull
Alexander G. Bell
Thomas Edison
Henry Ford
Wright Brothers
Margaret Sanger
Albert Einstein
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Louis Armstrong
James Watson
Martin Luther King Jr.
Muhammad Ali
Steve Jobs
Malcolm Owen
Oliver Haslam
Christine McKee
Amber Neely
Andrew Orr
William Gallagher
44 Comments
I'm amazed that this list doesn't include Walt Disney.
Einstein wasn't american. In fact, he was bribed (if you can call it a bribe when a gun is to your head) to come to the US from germany. Typical american media rewriting history.
This sort of thing makes the Windows/Android fanatic's brains explode. They can't even begin to wrap their heads around Jobs and Apple being influential, much less important.
Einstein wasn't american. In fact, he was bribed (if you can call it a bribe when a gun is to your head) to come to the US from germany. Typical american media rewriting history.
Einstein became a naturalized American citizen voluntarily. He came here to be able to continue his work without fear. It's you who need to stop rewriting history.
[quote name="matty2431" url="/t/151517/jobs-on-times-most-influential-americans-list#post_2154009"]Einstein wasn't american. In fact, he was bribed (if you can call it a bribe when a gun is to your head) to come to the US from germany. Typical american media rewriting history. [/quote] He was born in Germany to German parents. He was Jewish but his parents were non practicing and he attended a Catholic school for some of his childhood. He had more than two citizenships but died in the US, an American citizen. Hard to categorically classify him as one thing and one thing only. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein