It is like saying "Somewhere between Ghandi and Wonder Woman, India's independence movement took a back seat"
It is clear that WW has no relevance just as Zuckerberg to science.
Also, comparing one of the most respected human minds of all time to a simply grotesquely powerful active living person this way is something that is very distasteful from a news publication.
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Why is Google bashed so much more than FB or Amazon (product disinformation)?
I would attribute that to personal feelings and confirmation bias.
Facebook has received a lot of negative press coverage in recent times, for their help to nationalist parties in India, their behaviour in Myanmar, Burma, for their mishandling of fake news in the US and Europe, etc. They've also been at the heart of multiple legislative investigations in the US and abroad.
Comparatively, Google has received little backlash and attention for their own misdeeds.
> Also, comparing one of the most respected human minds of all time to a simply grotesquely powerful active living person this way is something that is very distasteful from a news publication.
A more generous interpretation could be that on social networks, emergent properties are hard to predict beforehand with theory, and require observation of the actual phenomenon. That's actually behind a large body of scientific work, the best known being agent-based models.
Also I think it's biased to simpy discard the scientific contribution of FANGs with emotionally loaded words like "grotesquely": from algorithms to new methods, there's much good to be found in what large companies (that you may like or dislike) have done.
Isaac Newton lived from 1642 – 1726 so technically:
* 1642-1649 : Charles I (until he got the chop)
* 1649-1660 : Interregnum, Cromwell and Son
* 1660-1685 : Charles II (Restored, partied a lot)
* 1685-1688 : James II (Too Catholic, overthrown)
* 1689-1702 : William and Mary ('Leveraged buyout' by the Dutch as Matt Christman puts it)
* 1702-1707 : Anne (Last English monarch... see Acts of Union)
* 1707-1714 : Anne (As monarch of GB)
* 1714-1727 : George I
So quite a few monarchs!
Butbas far as we know, not a lot of people were actually interested in working on a theory (because why spend the time if you can just slap a neural network on it?)
Even if some people are, they are likely working inside Facebook and we might not know about it.
The analogy there is more in comparing time periods than persons relevant to the development.