You Are The Product
Review of three books.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n16/john-lanchester/you-are-the-product
In the third review about Facebook :
" I am scared of Facebook. The company’s ambition, its ruthlessness, and its lack of a moral compass scare me. It goes back to that moment of its creation, Zuckerberg at his keyboard after a few drinks creating a website to compare people’s appearance, not for any real reason other than that he was able to do it. That’s the crucial thing about Facebook, the main thing which isn’t understood about its motivation: it does things because it can."
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Some good insights in these reviews. (In my opinion, of course.)
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n16/john-lanchester/you-are-the-product
In the third review about Facebook :
" I am scared of Facebook. The company’s ambition, its ruthlessness, and its lack of a moral compass scare me. It goes back to that moment of its creation, Zuckerberg at his keyboard after a few drinks creating a website to compare people’s appearance, not for any real reason other than that he was able to do it. That’s the crucial thing about Facebook, the main thing which isn’t understood about its motivation: it does things because it can."
[...]
Some good insights in these reviews. (In my opinion, of course.)