On p. 32 of the New Yorker September 17, 2016 there appears
a booklet-length article “Ghost in the Machine” by Evan Osnos, with the printed
tagline “Can Mark Zuckerberg fix Facebook before it breaks democracy?” There’s
an embedded poem by Ishion Hutchinson, “The Old Professor’s Notebook”.
Online there is a further tagline, “The most famous
entrepreneur of his generation is facing a public reckoning with the power of
Big Tech”.
Zuckerberg’s creation challenges libertarian notions that more
freedom is better. Inequality simply turns it into combativeness from neglected
peoples. No historical change is painless, Zuckerberg feels. There are tradeoffs
between truth and speech, between security and scale. All of these provide
problems just to be solved.
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