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Why Facebook Calls It An Arms Race
It’s the business model, folks. If we’re going to “fix” anything, we have to start there. “We weren’t expecting any of this when we created Twitter over 12 years ago, and we acknowledge the real world...
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Technology, Humanity, and the Existential Test
Can we govern ourselves? Will we? If you pull far enough back from the day to day debate over technology’s impact on society – far enough that Facebook’s destabilization of democracy, Amazon’s...
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Why Do We Think Facebook Can Fix This?
The last 24 hours have not been kind to Facebook’s already bruised image. Above are four headlines, all of which clogged my inbox as I cleared email after a day full of meetings. Let’s review: Any...
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Don’t Break Up The Tech Oligarchs. Force Them To Share Instead.
(image) Social conversations about difficult and complex topics have arcs – they tend to start scattered, with many threads and potential paths, then resolve over time toward consensus. This consensus...
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Naked and Afraid
Mark Zuckerberg is in a crisis of leadership. Will he grasp its opportunity? It seems like an eternity, but about one year ago this Fall, Uber had kicked its iconic founding CEO to the curb, and he...
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Don’t Blame Facebook.
We got ourselves into this mess. Facebook was just happy to take our money – and our data – as we did. 2019 is the year we starting digging ourselves back out. (Cross posted from Searchblog) Those of...
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One Year Ago: How Our Predictions Fared
Cross posted from Searchblog Every year I write predictions for the year ahead. And at the end of that year, I grade myself on how I did. I love writing this post, and thankfully you all love reading...
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Predictions for 2019: Data, Tech, Media, Climate, Markets and…Cannabis…
If predictions are like baseball, I’m bound to have a bad year in 2019, given how well things went the last time around. And given how my own interests, work life, and physical location have changed...
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The Internet Must Change. To Get There, Start With the Data.
This is an edited version of a series of talks I first gave in New York over the past week, outlining my work at Columbia. Many thanks to Reinvent, Pete Leyden, Cap Gemini, Columbia University,...
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Facebook Pivots to Privacy. Why?
Hint: Because Facebook wants to eat the Internet, and WeChat shows the way. (cross posted from Searchblog)I’ll never forget a meal I had with a senior executive at Facebook many years ago, back when I...
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