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A Warning From Another Time

We would all do well to remember Newton Minow’s prescience about the dangers of new technology—and his optimism, too.
Newton Minow, chair of the Federal Communications Commission, testifies before the Senate Small Business Subcommittee at a hearing on communication satellites in Washington, D.C., November 9, 1961.
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andMark Zuckerberg, two men apparently starving for both attention and meaning, have lately been promising to fight each other in a “cage match.” Charlie Warzel, ’s in-house expert on this relationship (he has other responsibilities as well), , “As the result of an inexplicable series of firing neurons, Musk managed to not only type but also send the following two-sentence tone poem: ‘I will be in Palo Alto on Monday. Let’s fight in your

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