THE DIGITAL FUTURE

Our world is becoming more and more digitized—from currency to art to all aspects of business. So, TIME chose groundbreaking digital artist Mike Winkelmann (aka Beeple) to design a cover for its latest issue, which features the list of the 100 most influential companies of 2021. The cover depicts the rapid acceleration of the digitization of our world.“With this artwork I wanted to show how everyone is becoming more digital as more and more of our interests and identity are moving online,” said Winkelmann, who famously sold one of his art collections for a record-setting $69 million as a NFT (non-fungible token) at Christie's auction house.