Facebook and Nerdpocalypse: regulating the knowledge gap

The tech revolution has produced a bifurcated culture of industry players who understand how they’re changing society, and regulators who don’t.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in Washington, D.C., before Congress on April 11 is horseman of the Nerdpocalypse, writes Lisa Van Dusen.
In 1984, when the movie Revenge of the Nerds hit theatres, the concept of a nerd uprising was entirely aspirational and constrained to a single fictional college campus. Back then, nerddom was defined by a propensity for Dungeons & Dragons and Nintendo, and the unabashed use ...

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