TIME May 12, 2008 (VOL.171, No.18). The Most Influential People in The World (TIME 100).
"The World's Most Influential People (TIME 100)"
"Our fifth annual list of the world's most influential people: leaders, thinkers, heroes, artists, scientists and more"
"My Life Without TV (Nerd World)"
"Has the Internet made the old-fashioned idiot box obsolete? There's one way to find out: get rid of it"
TIME Magazine -- Asia Edition -- May 12, 2008 Vol. 171, No. 18 https://content.time.com/time/magazine/asia/0,9263,501080512,00.html
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"Our fifth annual list of the world's most influential people: leaders, thinkers, heroes, artists, scientists and more"
Dalai Lama - The 2008 TIME 100 - TIME https://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1733748_1733757,00.html
"Some believe Putin's KGB background explains everything, but his allegiance to the KGB is in turn explained by his intense nationalism — which accounts for his popularity in Russia."
"Such powers have spheres of influence and subjugate lesser powers. At home, they celebrate national traditions and prize collective glory, not individual freedom."
Vladimir Putin - The 2008 TIME 100 - TIME https://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1733748_1733757_1735578,00.html
"It is unlikely that Putin, 55, will wear out his welcome at home anytime soon, as he has nearly done with many democracies abroad. In the meantime, he will remain an irritant to nato, a source of division within Europe and yet another reason for the West to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels."
Vladimir Putin - The 2008 TIME 100 - TIME https://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1733748_1733757_1735578,00.html
"I can get away with not having a TV partly because my personal life is so amazingly rich and satisfying but mostly because I have a computer, and all of a sudden there's an incredible amount of TV on the Internet. In the business of moving video data onto small plastic boxes, the Internet used to be a footnote--it was choppy and low res, legally sketchy and financially pointless."
Getting Rid of My TV - TIME https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,1731885,00.html
"Now, in the post-YouTube era, the Web is infested with video. That's what that Hollywood writers' strike was about."
"YouTube has been largely stripped of the kind of longer-format, commercially produced content that could get you through a solitary evening at home, as opposed to a furtive interlude between spreadsheets. It's becoming what it was always meant to be: a vast galaxy of bizarre amateur snippets."
Getting Rid of My TV - TIME https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,1731885,00.html