Oh god this is such bullshit. Its so easy to criticize FB/tech for not predicting the far-reaching consequences of companies they built 10-15 years ago in a ~completely~ different world. Back when no-one used them and the challenges were technical rather than societal.<p>What was the media, with all its humanities erudition saying back then? Nothing but cheer leading, just like the rest of us. The fact is, NO ONE understood all of these consequences so clearly decades ago.<p>I don't recall a whole lot of enlightened humanities majors predicting doom back when the iPhone came out or FB came out. The ENTIRE world has had to learn since then, not just SV.<p>Of course, its the tech industries responsibility to fix it now. But this tired old trope of "shouldn't have let the nerds get in power, they don't understand!!!" is just trash. Show me the enlightened people who were concerned about privacy back when FB was a joke if you want to argue that. I didn't see any.