"On or about December 1910, human character changed." Virginia
Woolf, 1924 She was exaggerating but only a little. Woolf saw a
fundamental shift in human relations taking place at the
beginning of the 20th century "between masters and servants,
husbands and wives, parents and children." Those changes, she
predicted, would bring about transformations in every sphere of
life, from religion to politics to human behavior. Few would say
she got it wrong. A century later, we are living through another
transition. The way we connect with one another and with the
institutions in our lives is evolving. There is an erosion of
trust in authority, a decentralizing of power and at the same
time, perhaps, a greater faith in one another. Our sense of
identity is more variable, while our sense of privacy is
expanding. What was once considered intimate is now shared among
millions with a keystroke. More than anyone else on the world
stage, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is at the center of these
changes. Born in 1984, the same ye