Mark Zuckerberg, In It To Change the World?

schmidt349 submitted a story about Zuckerberg that might fly in the face of what you've heard of the guy in the past. "Award-winning New York Times journalist David Kirkpatrick's new book The Facebook Effect presents readers with a complex view of Facebook's founder and CEO. Primed by hours of conversation and research deep into the history of the social network, Kirkpatrick reaches the conclusion that money isn't a primary motivation for Zuckerberg, 'a coder more than a CEO, a philosopher more than a businessman, a 26-year-old who has consistently avoided selling out because he sees Facebook as his way to change the world.' Kirkpatrick deftly handles the controversy surrounding Facebook's sometimes cavalier attitude toward user privacy, and the result is a much more balanced and less sensationalist account of Facebook's past, present, and future."

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Re:Gotta point out the good

[icebraining]

Steven K. Roberts has a Facebook and Twitter.

Now, if you find a guy who in the eighties built a bike with an embedded computer, a packet data communication system for email via ham radio, a 20 watt solar panel, a speech synthesizer that could be triggered by security sensors or remote radio command, and then traveled 16 000 miles across the US typing with a binary (eight keys) keyboard his journal as "not interesting", I pity you.

http://hackaday.com/2009/09/18/vintage-video-computing-across-america/

(Yes, this is a far fetched example - I just find him awe-inspiring)