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From Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic
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. By Jeffrey Goldberg SEPTEMBER 13, 2023, 7 AM ET SHARE SAVED STORIES SAVE elon musk and Mark Zuckerberg, two men apparently starving for both attention and meaning, have lately been promising to fight each other in a “cage match.” Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic ’s in-house expert on this relationship (he has other responsibilities as well), recently wrote , “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 Octagon.’ ” “At a sentence level,” Charlie explained, “these words, strung together in this order and seemingly without irony, are hilarious. From the standpoint of being a human, the Musk-Zuck cage match is an offensive waste of time—the result of a broken media system that allows those wit