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Facebook's Little Red Book
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> Zuckerbergs's Law: The amount each person shares doubles each year.
I initially thought wealth, ideas and love was meant but no ... it's just data.
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Ha ha, so it's more of a cautionary tale. I love those!
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haha, for real though. they poisoned the culture. of course not only them blah blah blah but they definitely played a BIG part.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Of course they did. It was 2012. The Arab Spring was happening when this was written. People might have been wrong, but that doesn't mean it wasn't a somewhat common belief.
It was common in some circles, sure. It was not a commonly held belief.
You originally said "noone thought this".
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#37Good job with the scan. I started reading the book and began to feel rage so I stopped after about 20 pages. Is it the most self-unaware book or just people trying their hand at PR?
Huh?
Smiling people drinking Pepsi, oil companies showing sun filtered through cornstalks....what's the difference?
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#38Good job with the scan. I started reading the book and began to feel rage so I stopped after about 20 pages. Is it the most self-unaware book or just people trying their hand at PR?
This was 2012. There was still hope and optimism in the tech space. The Internet had helped overturn powerful regimes and given voice to the disenfranchised. There was the idea that person to person public discourse could resolve many societal problems. Smartphones had exploded just 6 years prior and they were already making inroads into traditionally underserved and neglected communities around the world, helping fa…
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Facebook is definitely a "great company" by Person of the Year rules[1]. There are some real whoppers on that list.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
This was 2012. There was still hope and optimism in the tech space. The Internet had helped overturn powerful regimes and given voice to the disenfranchised. There was the idea that person to person public discourse could resolve many societal problems. Smartphones had exploded just 6 years prior and they were already making inroads into traditionally underserved and neglected communities around the world, helping fa…
> There was the idea that person to person public discourse could resolve many societal problems. Nobody thought this.
Provide evidence. 2012 is pretty late to have been drinking the techno-utopian koolaid but millions of people, and IMO, maybe half of silicon valley tech workers, took this assumption as ground truth.
This breathless article from 2009 [1] (found in 2 seconds by searching "tech will change the world year:2009") is a good example of what most people thought. You can find blog many posts and articles from the time saying basically the same thing. If you forget, back in 2012 people used to tune into Apple's yearly keynote with bated breath in anticipation of what marvelous innovation Apple would grace us with next. An app to replace your therapists? Uber for dogs? Solve poverty and racism? That was the attitude I remember among my peers (college kids and yes, professors too).
[1] https://www.rferl.org/a/Science_And_Technology_That_Changed_...