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Cambridge Analytica scandal: How Mark Zuckerberg can save Facebook - and us

The second inning of one of the world's great technological leaps, the implications of which we're just beginning to understand.

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Thomas L. Friedman | NYT
There is so much news these days that it’s hard to distinguish one big story from another. But for me the most consequential story of late was that a self-driving car operated by Uber — with an emergency backup driver behind the wheel — struck and tragically killed a woman on a street in Tempe, Ariz.

I could only look at that deeply unsettling story and say: Welcome to the second inning — the second inning of one of the world’s great technological leaps, the implications of which we’re just beginning to understand.

But first, let’s acknowledge one thing: The first inning