THE NEW OLD MEDIA:

No company in history has ever achieved the scale of Facebook, which now reaches nearly 1.5 billion total users. Nor has there ever been a mogul quite like Zuckerberg. He rules, with near omnipotence, over Silicon Valley’s grandest empire, and remains eager for more. In May, Facebook announced deals with The New York Times, NBC News, and other news organizations to publish articles directly into users’ pages. Facebook has also been reportedly negotiating with record labels while striking deals with content providers, such as HBO, to secure rights to music videos and scripted shows. (The social-media platform has already offered free episodes of Ballers and The Brink.) It wouldn’t be a stretch to see Facebook eventually producing its own series, as has been rumored, putting it in direct competition with Netflix and Amazon.

FLIGHT OF FANCY:

Since Facebook’s growth seems constrained mainly by the limited number of Internet users around the world, Zuckerberg has endeavored to build a fleet of giant solar-powered drones to beam data into remote parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.