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They act like kings because we made them kings Elon Time person of the yea...
America’s risk taker, 1982 Steve Jobs time cover
The magic inside the machine, 1984 Bill Gates computer softwar...
Master of the universe, 1995 Bill gates time cover w lig...
The Golden Geek, 1996 Marc Andreessen time cover
Can anybody catch these guys?, 2004 Sergey Larry time cover 3d ...
The kid who turned down $1B, 2006 Mark Zuckerberg on cover of...
The greatest living inventor, 2013 Elon Atlantic cover
Even one queen, 2014 Elizabeth Holmes on cover o...
CEOs made magazine covers before, of course—here’s GM’s Alfred P Sloan in 1945—but the superhero-genius framing wasn’t part of it Sloan on cover of Time
The turn comes in the early 80s and the saving-American-capitalism narrative built around figures like Lee Iacocca — Detroit’s Comeback Kid, 1983 Iacocca-car on time cover
This also happens to be right when the computer moves in (Machine of the Year, 1983) Time cover computer machine...
Ronald Reagan calls the 80s “the decade of the entrepreneur.” And guess who gets the title of Entrepreneur of the Decade, 1989? Steve Jobs cover of Inc
Then comes the 90s and a tech-fueled Wall St boom that helps make bankers and Treasury secretaries superheroes, too. The Committee to Save the World, 1998 Rubin, Greenspan, Summers
Software—and tech companies—ate the world, but they didn’t do it alone. 2011: Bezos on Bloomberg Bw
They act like kings because we made them kings, 2022. /end Elon with Twitter in birdca...

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Jul 2, 2020
Seeing lots of talk about unfair media coverage of tech, too much criticism, tearing down not building, etc etc. and I'm confused. Because here's 1982
and 1984
and 1996
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Jun 26, 2020
Popular stereotypes of Seattle--quirky left-coast outlier, nerdy high-tech hub--overlook bigger, harder truths about its past, & how this city is so much like the rest of America. Here are some sources that informed my most recent piece. THREAD:
nytimes.com/2020/06/24/opi…
First and foremost is the Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project, a truly remarkable digital archive of primary sources & original research essays created by my colleague Jim Gregory, cofounder @TrevorGriffey, & many @UWHist students past & present depts.washington.edu/civilr/
While this piece focused on Black Seattle, this city has always had a significant Asian American population whose experiences are critical to understanding the longer history of racial exclusion & civil rights activism. SCRLHP provides one entry point: depts.washington.edu/civilr/Asian%2…
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