I’ve never met Mark Zuckerberg. I’m old enough to be his father. But 1000+ friends later, and countless pictures of young people in our community tagged, there is no question that he has changed how I connect. And, I’m not surpised that Time has named him person of the year.
Time:
For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them, for creating a new system of exchanging information and for changing how we live our lives, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year . . .
"On or about December 1910, human character changed."
— Virginia Woolf, 1924She was exaggerating — but only a little. Woolf saw a fundamental shift in human relations taking place at the beginning of the 20th century "between masters and servants, husbands and wives, parents and children." Those changes, she predicted, would bring about transformations in every sphere of life, from religion to politics to human behavior. Few would say she got it wrong.
A century later, we are living through another transition. The way we connect with one another and with the institutions in our lives is evolving.
The rest here.
HT: Trevin Wax
