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The Oprah of tech?
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It’s hard competing with yourself.
Every year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg commits to a new personal challenge.
Every year, the challenge is greater than last year’s.
Why, last year Zuckerberg promised he’d fix Facebook. What could be bigger than that?
Alright, the picky will say that was a multi-year commitment, while the very picky will suggest that the only fixing Zuckerberg has done so far is to affix his company in the position of leading tech pariah.
Still, he’s moving ever upward. He’s just announced that his personal challenge for 2019 is, oh, this: “My challenge for 2019 is to host a series of public discussions about the future of technology in society — the opportunities, the challenges, the hopes, and the anxieties.”
Zuckerberg as Oprah? That ought to be riveting, as the Facebook CEO talks to “leaders, experts, and people in our community from different fields.”
Yes, leaders aren’t experts, as he himself has so brilliantly proved over the last few years.
Please imagine, though, that someone as uniquely ill-suited to warm discussion with other humans is now going to be hosting discussions with other humans about how tech has set the world on fire.