 The special issue was later renamed "Machine of the Year" prior to publication, celebrated"The Computer" and declared that, "it would have been possible to single out as Man of the Year one of the engineers or entrepreneurs who masterminded this technological revolution, but no one person has clearly dominated those turbulent events.More important, such a selection would obscure the main point.TIME's Man of the Year for 1982, the greatest influence for good or evil, is not a man at all.