This was the year they gave the throne to the machine.
We never got it back.
 
In 1983, TIME Magazine broke tradition. No “Man of the Year.” No human face. Instead, they handed the title to a machine — the Apple Macintosh. My father marked this moment as a psychological tipping point. When society stopped leading the machine… and started following it.
 
He labeled it Artifact 0009, with a handwritten caption across the inside page:
“This wasn’t a prediction. It was a proclamation.”
 
In 2038, we live under systems that no one voted for, shaped by algorithms no one understands. This artifact holds the blueprint for that transition — the moment the machines were no longer tools, but rulers.
 
Includes:
January 3, 1983 TIME issue (Macintosh cover)
Original post-it from my father
Handwritten note from me
 
Own the magazine that declared machines more influential than men.