Mark Zuckerberg’s story is the kind that tech geeks live for. He was anointed by Vanity Fair this month as “our new Caesar” in its list of the 100 most influential people. His story fits neatly into the narrative of the American Dream: the self-made man who, through creativity and hard work, becomes the youngest billionaire in the world. The film, The Social Network, which was released this month, complicates the simple narrative of Zuckerberg’s road to his Facebook empire by implicitly posing the question: Whose “idea” is Facebook?
