LAB: IOE 13

It’s called the Internet of Everything rather than of “things,” because it is increasingly apparent that we are part of an interlaced reality. Whether it’s a Fitbit, video memory augmentation, apps that connect our friends to our whereabouts in our car, or a panoply of other kinds of intersections, Facebook is central. It is the main connection mechanism for people. In this discussion, Facebook’s head of mobile, Cory Ondrejka, talks with Techonomy’s David Kirkpatrick about how the company sees its role. Read the full transcript below. Kirkpatrick: I was backstage, earlier, talking to Cory Ondrejka, who is head of mobile for Facebook and has been very busy with Facebook Home and a lot of other things lately, and who I happened to know from his days when he was at Linden Lab Second Life, where he was head of technology and one of the real progenitors of that. So he has some interesting background in the virtual world. But he made the point, you know, we call it “Man, Machines and the Network,” but we haven’t talked about man very much yet, or people, which is actually probably what we should have had there. We weren’t trying to be sexist. But Facebook, which is a company that I wrote a book about, and, you know, passionately a believer in the importance of, and so are 1.1 billion people, so it’s not a minor service, is clearly important because it has given people more connectivity to other people and really more personal empowerment than any other...