Why Inventors Misjudge How We’ll Abuse Their Creations
For understandable reasons, when we tell stories of technological innovation, we tend to focus on insight and even seeming clairvoyance—the people who can see the future before the rest of us. But there's a flip side to such farsightedness that shows up again and again in the history of innovation: the blind spots, the possibilities that somehow escaped our field of vision but that, in retrospect, seem glaringly obvious.
Can Anything Take Down the Facebook Juggernaut?
After just eight years in existence, Facebook has more than 750 million users and is on the cusp to becoming a medium unto itself. Can anything take down the social networking giant?