Commonwealth Club/npr: "Zucked, Inside the Facebook Catastrophe", pov of an investor..

Commonwealth Club
Roger McNamee: Inside the Facebook Catastrophe

Bay Area technology investor Roger McNamee’s new book, Zucked, is about the outspoken investor’s efforts to come to terms with the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society. McNamee set out to try to change the massive social network and other tech companies that use design tools to addict and manipulate its users. With the election of Donald Trump, and the emergence of one horrific piece of news after another about the malign ends to which the Facebook platform has been put, McNamee has dedicated his energies to have people understand the threat of Facebook and other social networks. He will discuss what we can do to hold the companies responsible and to protect our public health and political order.

Haven't seen; on tonight here; search may or may not find a repeat...

'Course too.. does anyone know how much Si Valley AI folk are assisting China's new Emperor to create its ~Social Goodness number? aka 24/7/365 face-print surveillance of ALL, WITH a score card of whether you are Socially OK with the Dear Leader. Guess there's no market left for any new Dystopian pot-boilers: we're Here.

[1984 et al ..were ancient techno; "fastening seat-belts" won't help if the brick-wall is being driven atcha while stopped.]

..the basic M.O. which must be fixed ... (or just maybe They and We--since it's so Huge--may well be toast a lot earlier than expected.) Whether or not you use FB: it's the Mastodon in the [any room you occupy., whether you invited them in or not.) Why? grok next "hyper-scaling": the toxin which is creating more Si-Valley new-launches of inherently Predatory-kind (one of McNamee's top concerns, but covered only en passant /so much material to cover.

Try and audit this cubic-closest-packing Overview; allegedly (announced) on the C. Club site already.
(FB is a cult/has its Dear Leader == the tl;dr).
It's unclear if they Will change their Business Model (for the sake of say ..'democracy' anywhere that topic applies), nor can we have much faith in the abilities of the Congress-we-already-Know: to force such a basic change/pass new and truly-incisive Laws (and like that.) Congressional old-white-men are predictably obtuse; likely could not comprehend the subtleties of this mondo-Clusterfuck (or maybe.. not even care to try.)

Carrion.. apply as indicated.
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