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I doubt Sorkin will find anything more epic than the Jobs/Gates rivalry
“Sorkin noted that “The Social Network” saw the Facebook story through the lens of an acrimonious lawsuit that pitted CEO Mark Zuckerberg against his Harvard friends over the creation of the social media network.
“Drama is tension versus obstacle. Someone wants something, something is standing in their way of getting it. They want the money, they want the girl, they want to get to Philadelphia – doesn’t matter … And I need to find that event and I will. I just don’t know what it is,” Sorkin said.”
Sorkin says Jobs movie won’t be straight biography – chicagotribune.com
Continue reading: Sorkin says Jobs movie won’t be straight biography – chicagotribune.com
Excerpt from a timely Facebook reality check
““Everything we do rewires our brains, but Facebook is having a very strong impact on our society and social fabric,” he said.
He explains his work in his new book, “iDisorder: Understanding Our Obsession With Technology and Overcoming Its Hold on Us,” in which he concludes that Facebook is “both good and bad for us.”
For example, Facebook is efficient at dispensing virtual empathy — the good feelings that people get when all their friends wish them happy birthday through the service — as well as teaching people how to be more compassionate and share those feelings offline.”
Are… Continue reading: Are We Addicted to Facebook? It’s Complicated. – NYTimes.com
Excerpt from a timely Steven Johnson reality check; tbd if Google’s Knowledge Graph will be more open than Facebook’s Open Graph
“This reluctance to link to the outside is, to say the least, hard to reconcile with Zuckerberg’s paean to open connection. Hyperlinks are the connective tissue of the online world; breaking them apart with solicitations to download apps may make it easier to share data passively with your friends, but the costs—severing the link itself and steering people away from unlit corners of the web—clearly outweigh the gains. Surely we can figure out a way to share seamlessly without killing off the seamless surfing that has done so much for us over the past two decades.”
Can Anything Take Down the Facebook Juggernaut? | Epicenter | Wired.com
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