Earth 1

The greatest

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The people who changed what it means to be human. Ask what they did and why it mattered.

The ranking is the founder’s personal canon. The descriptions are Earth 1’s own short summaries. Consequential does not mean good: tyrants are on the list because of what they did to the world, and their harm is stated plainly.

The builders

1955 – 2011 · #33 in the canon

Portrait of Steve Jobs
Matthew Yohe · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Steve Jobs

Technology married with the liberal arts.

“Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.”

Macworld keynote introducing the iPhone, 9 January 2007

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