Facebook brings automation to communication
David Kirkpatrick author and technology journalist believes it is the automated nature of the Facebook platform that has made it so powerful and pervasive.For the first time, he points out, we have a communications medium that does not just convey messages; rather, the system itself initiates messages and connects people with each other, which has massive implications across a range of human arenas.
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David Kirkpatrick is the author of the recently published "The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World", about Facebook's history and how it is changing behaviors across societies worldwide.
Previously, he was the senior editor for internet and technology at Fortune Magazine, where he specialized in the computer and technology industries, as well as in the impact of the Internet on business and society. Kirkpatrick began writing about computing and technology for Fortune in 1991. Kirkpatrick is regularly ranked one of the world's top technology journalists.
He created Fortune's Brainstorm conference series in Aspen starting in 2001, and is now co-founder of Techonomy, a media and event company whose debut event will take place August 4-6 at Lake Tahoe, California (www.techonomy.com).
He is a member of the World Economic Forum's International Media Council and the Council on Foreign Relations.
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