The Walls Have Crumbled And Facebook Was Built To Exploit That

The “media baron” in the traditional sense is dead. The people who provide platforms for others to tell stories that reach millions of people in an instant are the new titans and the opportunity to create those platforms is equally available to all. This argument is effectively articulated in Larry Lessig’s review of The Social Network.

Larry effectively articulates something I have been telling my friends for the past few years:

What’s important here is that Zuckerberg’s genius could be embraced by half-a-billion people within six years of its first being launched, without (and here is the critical bit) asking permission of anyone.

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