![]() ![]() Includes gameboard, 6 tokens, 24 Invention cards, 16 Chance cards, 16 Community Chest cards, 12 Headquarters, 2 dice, money pack, and game guide.Monopoly name and character, as well as each of the distinctive elements of the board and playing pieces are trademarks of Hasbro for its property trading game and game equipment. The Hasbro, Hasbro Gaming, Parker Brothers, and Monopoly names and logos, the distinctive design of the gameboard, the four corner squares, the Mr. Includes unique tokens that representthe adventurous spirit f Ms. WIFI, chocolate chip cookies, bullet proof vests and the list goes on! This is the first game where women make more than men, but who you are is up to you. Monopoly's niece, a self-made investment guru, here to update a few things! The game celebrates women inventors as players move around the board collecting iconic things that wouldnt exist without women. And let’s hope to God-for our own sakes, and for the sake of the world-that we are surprised again.Īdam Fisher ( is the best-selling author of the just-released Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom).This breakout Monopoly game introduces Mr. Take it from this historian: We’ve been surprised before. “Zuckerberg,” he continues, “would be wise to embrace Gates as a role model, re-engineer both Facebook and his own priorities, and try to undo some of the damage Facebook has done.” It’s the sort of advice McNamee has given Zuckerberg before, in private, but as he says it publicly, his skepticism that Zuck is capable of listening to anyone, even Gates, is palpable.Īs for me? I’m not so sure. Roger McNamee, an early investor in Facebook agrees: “Even at its worst Microsoft never approached the harm we have seen from Facebook.” Before he turned against Facebook in a very public break, McNamee had been something of a mentor to the company’s young CEO. Like his childhood hero, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg has been humbled. Was Zuckerberg really blind to the fake news that showed up in everyone’s Facebook feeds just before the election? Did he really not see how Facebook had decisively tilted the worlds’ political axis towards the populist right? Did he actually think that the idea that fake news was affecting elections was “crazy”? Well, after being dragged to Capitol Hill to testify before Congress and then again to Brussels to testify before the European parliament, he has changed his tune. (History, it’s often said, doesn’t repeat-it rhymes.) ![]() This time, however, it was the whole world that wanted to know if it could believe its ears-and eyes. And then Apple just leap-frogged Windows entirely, with the iPhone.īy totally dismissing the power of fake news right after the 2016 election Zuckerberg had, yet again, willed the historical parallel between Facebook and Microsoft into existence. Google and others poured everything into web apps, steadily undermining the importance of Microsoft’s operating system. Gates’ take-no-prisoners attack on the browser market probably did more harm than good, as it united all of Silicon Valley against him. ![]() And while a change in political power spared Microsoft from that fate, Gates was decisively humbled and his de facto monopoly over all of computing would slowly start to fade away. Two-and-a-half years later the judge ordered the company broken up. That was the moment that the tide turned decisively against Microsoft. The judge noted that he had been able to separate the two by simply uninstalling the browser, and then said to Gates’ assembled lawyers, “If the process is not that simple, I’d like to have it refuted by any evidence Microsoft chooses to introduce.” Then he leaned in for the killing blow: “I want to know whether to believe my eyes.” Zuckerberg famously dismissed this idea, telling Kirkpatrick right after the election that “the idea that fake news on Facebook-of which, you know, it’s a very small amount of the content-influenced the election in any way, I think, is a pretty crazy idea,”Īlmost exactly 20 years earlier Microsoft was arguing in federal court that it was impossible to comply with a judge’s order to unbundle its operating system, Windows, from its browser, Explorer. The mainstream media (what’s left of it) quickly fingered fake news as the monstrous crime that gave us a fake president-and Facebook as the getaway car. It started the day after Trump won his long-shot bid for the presidency. Today Zuckerberg and Facebook are caught up in a maelstrom of the first order. ![]()
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