Conclusion
The Future Is at the Frontier
On April 10, 2018, Mark Zuckerberg was called in for his second day of testimony in the US Senate. He was being asked a barrage of questions regarding the role of Facebook in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. His prepared answers were written on a piece of paper in front of him, and well rehearsed.
One answer concerned a potential Facebook breakup. He never received the corresponding question, but his canned statement underscores the current state of the world. “Break Up FB? U.S. tech companies key asset for America; break up strengthens Chinese companies,” his notepad read.1
Facebook’s chief worry wasn’t its US competitors like Twitter, LinkedIn, and Snapchat. To Facebook, the real competition ...
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