Who is your man of the 21st century?
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David S Poepoe
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Shouldn't that be "Person of the 21st Century"?
Since the person that influenced the 20th Century most profoundly wasn't even on the cover of Time Magazine, Adolf Hitler, perhaps there will be someone of better deeds (depending on your POV that is).
Since the person that influenced the 20th Century most profoundly wasn't even on the cover of Time Magazine, Adolf Hitler, perhaps there will be someone of better deeds (depending on your POV that is).
Xen
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tetsu-katana said:Hate to break it to ya...
Hitler was Man of the Year in 1938.
Yeah but they didnt want to put him on the person of the Century cover. They were afraid he might offend somebody, of course he'll offend someone, its friggin Hitler not Santa Claus. Anyway, I think Albert Einstein was selected instead.
David S Poepoe
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tetsu-katana said:
I knew that, but I see that I should have mentioned the few articles in 2000/2001 at Time Magazine about who should be the 'Man of the 20th Century', not just 'Man of the Year for 1938'. It was between Einstein and Hitler, and Einstein was choosen instead.
Anaxagoras
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Person of the 21st Century? A figure in the Muslim world who will rise to a position of moral authority and will use his power to denounce violence and preach tolerance- a 21st Century Muslim Gandhi, in other words.
The person who develops a cheap, effective alternative to fossils fuels will be person (or corporation) of the 21st century.
I am thinking maybe the first mass-marketed hydrogen fuel cell vehicles AND fuel stations. Or maybe the first to get a mass-market cold-fusion device out to the masses.
Or some doctor that slows or stops the aging process, or cures something like AIDS or cancer.
Or maybe one of my cats. They are kind of nice. I like my cats.
I am thinking maybe the first mass-marketed hydrogen fuel cell vehicles AND fuel stations. Or maybe the first to get a mass-market cold-fusion device out to the masses.
Or some doctor that slows or stops the aging process, or cures something like AIDS or cancer.
Or maybe one of my cats. They are kind of nice. I like my cats.
I'm surprised Lenin wasn't in competition, seeing as how that whole Russian Revolution had a tiny impact on the 20th century n all.
Hendryk
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That question will be for our great-grandchildren to answer. If you'd asked someone in 1906 who would be the man of the 20th century, who would have even guessed the potential contenders? (and to them, it would very much have been "man"--making history was considered a male-only activity back then). Who would have named an obscure mathematician who had developed some outlandish concept named "relativity" just the year before?
The people back then lived with confidence that their world would stay that way forever. A world of ruling upper-class white men, convinced of their moral and racial superiority, with everyone in their rightful place; the women at home, the lower classes in the factories and the darkies in the colonies. We're no longer that complacent, but we have traded their certainties for new ones that we may not even be aware of.
The people back then lived with confidence that their world would stay that way forever. A world of ruling upper-class white men, convinced of their moral and racial superiority, with everyone in their rightful place; the women at home, the lower classes in the factories and the darkies in the colonies. We're no longer that complacent, but we have traded their certainties for new ones that we may not even be aware of.
Thande
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I suspect we can make some suggestions for posts that may yield the man/woman of the C21, though we will not know yet who the individuals in those posts will be...
Like:
The first woman or black president of the USA
The first democratically elected leader of China (perhaps a bit optimistic for the C21, but a lot can happen in 100 years)
The first president of a reformed and effective EU (maybe)
The first man/woman on insert planet here
Like:
The first woman or black president of the USA
The first democratically elected leader of China (perhaps a bit optimistic for the C21, but a lot can happen in 100 years)
The first president of a reformed and effective EU (maybe)
The first man/woman on insert planet here
The President who oversees the final democratic union of (your choice) Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe (ALL of it).
The $%#$*& who starts WW III
The Scientist(s) who create sustainable fusion power
AqiX SRYRE the first Centari to address the UN General Assembly
Mitch Johansson (And how do you know it won't be? Hell, I just made him up, but it might happen!)
The $%#$*& who starts WW III
The Scientist(s) who create sustainable fusion power
AqiX SRYRE the first Centari to address the UN General Assembly
Mitch Johansson (And how do you know it won't be? Hell, I just made him up, but it might happen!)