The Ends of Facebook (Technology Freedom 1)
Book Details
Author(s)Michael Calmeyer Hentschel
PublisherTechnology Freedom Institute
ISBN / ASINB007TXFN44
ISBN-13978B007TXFN43
MarketplaceIndia 🇮🇳
Description
What are the possible futures of Facebook, what is the company really worth, and what is its role in relation to its social contribution, rather than as ultimate commercialization of a pliant user base that does all the real work?
Michael Calmeyer Hentschel, an investment banker, venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur, weaves a new tapestry of past and coming innovation in social networks around the theme of a Facebook Fortress faced with Barbarian Attacks, vulnerable now to a surprisingly uncertain future.
The author illustrates how technology both solves and exacerbates our human problems with trade-offs of well-being, convenience, and personal freedom. With insights into the actual technologies and how they evolved and are evolving, as well as how society may want to implement these substantial changes to our lifestyles, the story of what is good and bad becomes more clear. This also points to future technologies that should be winners in the marketplace of tomorrow, which will be featured in future volumes.
Considering that Facebook is involved in a successful IPO, talking about the Ends of Facebook may seem controversial. But this may ultimately help Facebook maintain a more desirable Domain of long term user freedom and empowerment inside its virtual community, instead of enslaving its users as serfs to the almighty advertising dollar in a Fiefdomain which the users may well want to leave.
Because this is a fiefdomain tilled by its members who do all the real spadework, that desire to leave may become a torrent of escapees once the full dimensions of Facebook's commercialization (to justify its valuation) becomes clear to the as yet pacified billion denizens of the Facebook Domain.
Michael Calmeyer Hentschel, an investment banker, venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur, weaves a new tapestry of past and coming innovation in social networks around the theme of a Facebook Fortress faced with Barbarian Attacks, vulnerable now to a surprisingly uncertain future.
The author illustrates how technology both solves and exacerbates our human problems with trade-offs of well-being, convenience, and personal freedom. With insights into the actual technologies and how they evolved and are evolving, as well as how society may want to implement these substantial changes to our lifestyles, the story of what is good and bad becomes more clear. This also points to future technologies that should be winners in the marketplace of tomorrow, which will be featured in future volumes.
Considering that Facebook is involved in a successful IPO, talking about the Ends of Facebook may seem controversial. But this may ultimately help Facebook maintain a more desirable Domain of long term user freedom and empowerment inside its virtual community, instead of enslaving its users as serfs to the almighty advertising dollar in a Fiefdomain which the users may well want to leave.
Because this is a fiefdomain tilled by its members who do all the real spadework, that desire to leave may become a torrent of escapees once the full dimensions of Facebook's commercialization (to justify its valuation) becomes clear to the as yet pacified billion denizens of the Facebook Domain.
