The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley
"All these companies began with a gauzy
credo to change the world. But they have done that in ways they did not
imagine — by weaponizing pretty much everything that could be
weaponized. They have mutated human communication, so that connecting
people has too often become about pitting them against one another, and
turbocharged that discord to an unprecedented and damaging volume.
They
have weaponized social media. They have weaponized the First Amendment.
They have weaponized civic discourse. And they have weaponized, most of
all, politics...
Because what he never managed to grok
then was that the company he created was destined to become a template
for all of humanity, the digital reflection of masses of people across
the globe. Including — and especially — the bad ones.
Was
it because he was a computer major who left college early and did not
attend enough humanities courses that might have alerted him to the
uglier aspects of human nature? Maybe."
