Stop demonising the high-tech titans of Silicon Valley!
Social media chiefs are seen as villains now. A different narrative held sway during Obama's campaigns
Washington
THEY celebrated Bill Gates as the wonder kid, the symbol of American capitalism and technological ingenuity who helped change the world as we know it.
Steve Jobs was The Man, a figure larger than life, brainy and sexy, a modern-day Michelangelo, defying authority and challenging convention.
And then there was Mark Zuckerberg. The guy is like a cross between Henry Ford and Albert Einstein. He is leading the Revenge of the Nerds and in the process transforming our civilisation. Let's face it: He is the Future.
Indeed, the future was here and is in Redmond, West Virginia, and in M…
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