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Facebook is 20 years old: reason and education put to the test of networks

2024-01-31T19:49:15.539Z

Highlights: Facebook is 20 years old: reason and education put to the test of networks. The new oracles of tech are setting out to conquer markets with missionary accents by brandishing great ideals - however quickly converted into commercial arguments. Free and equality fizzled out, and now… This article is reserved for subscribers. You have 61% left to discover. Flash sale Unlock all items immediately. I ENJOY IT Already subscribed? Log in. The FIGARO EDITORIAL is published every month.


THE FIGARO EDITORIAL - Digital transformation is undeniably the cause of profound upheavals, but let us make no mistake: it is not to the new oracles of tech that we should entrust the sovereignty of minds.


Twenty years ago, somewhere in the student dormitories of Harvard, one of the projects that changed the face of the world was born.

The young Mark Zuckerberg, student of psychology and computer science, programming prodigy, he imagines, when he launches the first online students' paper, to soon reign, with Facebook, then Meta, as master over the " global web interactions?

In Silicon Valley, the followers of cyberculture have in any case already theorized this nascent movement, this coming wave: they hope from digital technology nothing less than a revolution of consciousness.

“Bringing the world closer together”

(Mark Zuckerberg),

“Giving power back to the people”

(Elon Musk),

“Bringing humanity together”

or

“Making man freer”…

The new oracles of tech are setting out to conquer markets with missionary accents by brandishing great ideals - however quickly converted into commercial arguments.

Free and equality fizzled out, and now…

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