Professor Elam

 

 

I guess the obvoius one is what Dale Carnegie observed about us 70 years ago,

we are the center of our own universe. While MSFT was operational software, Facebook is an extention of ourselves, our own personal coccoon on which we present ourselves to the world, the ideal platform  for the ME generation. And so everybody's doin' it, marketing firms, poilticians, you name it.

 

The second slide in my derivative presentation is Zuckerberg  on the cover of Fast Company attired in a t shirt. Now with 175 Million users on  Fortune magazine , he is button downed all business. Gee what a difference a few years makes, and he is not selling to MSFT.

 

When I was in college a Canadian named Marshall McLuhan made a big splash saying

 

the media is the message, we will soon be a global village, Marshall was a man ahead of his time, the global village is now…