CNET reports that Steve Jobs has been nominated to be Time's Person of the Year for 2011. NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams nominated Apple's founder and former CEO for the honor after citing the tremendous influence Jobs had in shaping the modern world.
If Jobs is selected, he would be the first posthumous Person of the Year. Other notable tech figures who have been granted the honor over the past few decades include Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg in 2010, Amazon's Jeff Bezos in 1999, the computer itself in 1982, and "you" in 2006. According to Walter Isaacson's biography, at age 27 Steve Jobs believed he would be Time's Person of the
