Robert Fairhead · @tallandtrue
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Post #133 of my and homage on Instagram (and I have treble-checked this after my recent stuff up!) is Unnatural Selection - Why the Geeks Will Inherit the Earth by (). Published in 2013, some may say the book is sadly prophetic. And I'd have to agree with all the "kitchen sink" rubbish going on at the Twitter "town square".

As for the twins mentioned in the book's introduction, I don't feel sorry for them losing to the geek - they've made billions from cryptocurrency since then:

There is a scene at the beginning of the Academy Award-winning film The Social Network where a Harvard student declares, "I'm six feet five, 220 [pounds] and there's two of me!" Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are a formidable pair - the products of a wealthy family; members of the US Olympic rowing team; and endowed with the chiselled Nordic features of modern-day Vikings. They are the sort of people not to mess with. By the end of the film, however, it is Mark Zuckerberg who has soundly defeated the Winklevosses by retaining full control of Facebook, which becomes a runaway global success and transforms the way that over a billion people communicate and relate to each other.

Link to post on Instagram: instagram.com/p/BjvtNOsFdK3/

#bookcovers #firstsentences #markroeder #abcbooks #winklevoss #facebook #zuckerberg

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Pip · @piplincolne
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