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...write the cover story, senior editor Joshua Cooper Ramo visited Intel chip plants on three continents and spent weeks studying the company, including two days traversing the valley with the peripatetic executive (after some Stanford students mistook the clean-cut journalist for a security man, Grove referred to his chronicler as "Agent Ramo...
...Grove's selection echoes two previous honorees: we recognized his countrymen in 1956 by selecting the Hungarian Freedom Fighter, and his business in 1982, when the computers that Intel's chips were already enabling were named "Machine of the Year." This week's issue also caps a year in which TIME's commitment to the digital era bore richer fruit than ever. We consider the computer revolution one of the defining stories of our time. Our coverage in 1997 ranged from managing editor Walter Isaacson's groundbreaking profile of Bill Gates of Microsoft to that company's bailout of Apple...
...goal for Man of the Year is, as ever, to illuminate our world through one example that is both timely and timeless. Andy Grove embodies both the energy of the business and technology industries that are shaping society today, and the vision and creativity that have always typified the American Dream...
...first met Grove 17 years ago while working at the Wall Street Journal. The Journal's management was proud of its resistance to technology in those days, so reporters and editors worked with manual typewriters, carbon paper and No. 2 pencils. As we were walking through the newsroom, Grove stopped to peer into the wire room, a small area overstuffed with fax and teletype machines, and exclaimed, "This is absolutely incredible equipment! In fact, it should be in the Smithsonian." That and subsequent conversations with Andy over the years taught me to appreciate his wit and his wisdom and sensitized...
...early 1960s, "is indistinguishable from magic." One lesson of our Man of the Year's life is that while technology lets us produce ever more astounding machines, it has little to say about how we might use them. For that we rely on the likes of Andy Grove. What Intel's chairman has inside is magic...