![]() ![]() The totality of this man’s professional life has been running this company, which calls itself “a platform.” Company, platform - whatever it is, it provides a curious service wherein billions of people fill it with content: baby photos, birthday wishes, concert promotions, psychotic premonitions of Jewish lizard-men. At its peak the planet’s fourth most valuable company, and arguably its most influential, is controlled almost entirely by a young man with the charisma of a geometry T.A. “A dystopian technology future overran our lives before we were ready,” he writes in “Zucked.” Think that sounds like overstatement? Let’s examine the evidence. Roger McNamee, an esteemed venture capitalist, would appear to agree. ![]() Scary stuff, certainly, but maybe the more frightening dystopia is the one no one warned you about, the one you wake up one morning to realize you’re living inside. Newspeak, the Ministry of Truth, the Inner Party, the Outer Party - that novel sampled and remixed a reality that Nazi and Soviet totalitarianism had already made apparent. The dystopia George Orwell conjured up in “1984” wasn’t a prediction. ZUCKED Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe By Roger McNamee ![]()
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