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Mark Zuckerberg, a 19-year-old computing and psychology student at Harvard University, welcomed the first users to a website which has since made him $33bn. 
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There is a Marxist-influenced reading of history which insists that there is an essential connection between history and technological advancement - that, to put it a little differently, change in social and political conditions follows from change in material conditions. So, for instance, the stirrup led to the rise of feudalism, the printing press led to the Reformation, newspapers give rise to the imagined community of the nation-state, industrialisation brought about the proletariat and heralded the possibility of socialism. And Facebook heralds - well, heralds what exactly?
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