noteworthy wrote:
Jessica Pressler:

Looking around at the newly minted billionaires behind the enjoyable but wholly unnecessary Facebook and WhatsApp, Uber and Nest, the brightest minds of a generation, the high test-scorers and mathematically inclined, have taken the knowledge acquired at our most august institutions and applied themselves to solving increasingly minor First World problems. The marketplace of ideas has become one long late-night infomercial.

Oh brother. Silicon Valley funds lots of crap, but if you don't appreciate the necessity of Facebook you aren't in a position to separate the wheat from the chaff.

RE: the road ahead