Closing the imagination gap

Civilization seems to be living through another moment when the benefit of the doubt is being exploited as a weakness by corrupt actors.

Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a congressional committee in the United States on April 11 about Cambridge Analytica’s use of millions of Facebook users’ data without their consent. Facebook has gone from a self-proclaimed force for good to ‘digital gangsters,’ in the words of a report this week from British MPs, writes Lisa Van Dusen. Screenshot courtesy of CNBC

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

February 20, 2019

There have been moments in modern history when innovation has overtaken our ability to interpret events; when, because we’ve never before seen anything like what we’re witnessing, we can’t process it accurately. If you’ve been living on a planet where the only animals are cows, you’ll natu...

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