.... and will be as important to America as the lightbulb was.
No. There were others already working on social media — like the guys that Zukerberg stole some of his ideas from. We already had myspace. There are others that would have developed social media if there wasn’t a Zuckerberg. It may not of happened as quickly but it would have developed. That is fact.
PS I still have the software if anyone has the $$$$
PPS a couple of years later the $$$$ showed up but unfortunately the vulture capitalist forced the software to be an insanely expensive configuration management system.