they announced that Time's Man of the Year for 1982—"the greatest influence for good or evil"—was not a human being at all but a machine: the computer. "In 1982," declared the magazine's cover story, "a cascade of computers beeped and blipped their way into the American office, the American school, the American home. The 'information revolution' that futurists have long predicted has arrived, bringing with it the promise of dramatic changes in the way people live and work, perhaps even in the way they think. America will never be the same."
