Nicholas Carr on Mark Zuckerberg's 100 Year Law

Nicholas Carr skewers Mark Zuckerberg's attempt to overreach his education:

"Once every hundred years media changes," boy-coder turned big-thinker Mark Zuckerberg declared today at the Facebook Social Advertising Event in New York City. And it's true. Look back over the last millennium or two, and you'll see that every century, like clockwork, there's been a big change in media. Cave painting lasted a hundred years, and then there was smoke signaling, which also lasted a hundred years, and of course there was the hundred years of yodeling, and then there was the printing press, which was invented almost precisely 100 years ago, and so forth and so on up to the present day - the day that Facebook picked up the 100-year torch and ran with it. Quoth the Zuckster: "The next hundred years will be different for advertising, and it starts today."

Read the whole thing.  It may sound harsh but Carr is rarely harsh without a darn good reason.

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