Web 2.0-era peak hubris. A decade later, its hard to decide if this looks delusional or prophetic - they did change societies, but probably not in the ways they ostensibly wanted to be recognized for changing.
Facebook's Little Red Book
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#62page 27 > 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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I looked up "psychohistory" and while the definition makes sense, I don't really understand what you mean by this comment.
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#63It's funny; as I've been working on Haven[1], one of my guiding lights is what Facebook _could have been_[2]. To that end the opening section is really inspiring. This is describing a world where digital tools enhance your friendships. I think that's still possible and still a worthwhile goal--I just don't think it can be done by an entity with a corporate incentive structure. Those incentives will always tend toward…
> what Facebook _could have been_
In 2010, facebook changed. Twitter was cooler. Myspace was more money. So facebook took a page out of their platforms.
In 2012, facebook went to Washington DC.
In 2016, Washington DC went to facebook.
When did facebook change? When zuck lost control of it after sandberg came on board. When did zuck get control? When zuck changed to be in alliance with the master plan… which was take control of the world… politically. Remember zuck running for election?
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#64page 17. android operating system on an iphone 4. i'm crying right now, particularly the way this is juxtaposed with so many critical moments in history.
I think it is meant to be a generic phone, the edges and front camera are wrong for an iphone, but then the home button is very distinctly an iphone. It is weird.
it's either an iphone 4 or iphone 5 in a case. the home button is an iconic giveaway.
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#65This looks like an Instagram feed. Is it a coincidence that they purchased Instagram in April 2012?
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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.
No, they didn't. Facebook was just a less trashy, more exclusive version of myspace when it came out. Geocities, livejournal, blogger etc. were earlier iterations on the same concept - personal websites for non-techies. The only thing new about Facebook was their relative success in signing up a broader userbase, which was probably just a right-place, right-time thing of being around when computers and high-speed internet were becoming cheap and ubiquitous rather than anything different about what they were doing.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
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I looked up "psychohistory" and while the definition makes sense, I don't really understand what you mean by this comment.
It just sounds vaguely prophetic like he thinks he knows how every person will behave for the foreseeable future.
But I was referring to the fictional version from the Foundation series, not the apparently real (pseudo-)science that I didn’t know existed.
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#68page 17. android operating system on an iphone 4. i'm crying right now, particularly the way this is juxtaposed with so many critical moments in history.
Could it be an iPod Touch?
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#69I think people here are too young to remember the tech industry in 2012. None of the images and ideas conveyed in this book (printing press, cave art, fall of the Berlin wall, Arab Spring, particle accelerators) were outlandish for the time and space it was printed in. Tech was all about optimism and idealism. Everyone in silicon valley knew they were changing the world for the better, and tech was the missing piece…
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Yes but people talked about it even less than they do today. Back then you could say connecting people is always a good thing and people didn't challenge that openly like we do today.
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#70I find this terribly sad.