The Smithian

The most visible...is Mark Zuckerberg's new organization. Launched...in April of this year, the group is called FWD.us, and is being mobilized to push for immigration and education reform, issues that affect the tech industry's ability to access trained workers. Right out of the starting block, it caused a stir last spring by running ads praising conservative senators' support for such conservative causes as the Keystone pipeline and drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge in order to provide political cover for a potentially unpopular vote in favor of the Senate immigration bill. The group even ran ads on the Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh talk radio shows. Progressives were furious, and several high profile members withdrew from the group. Nevertheless, the group is pressing on... 

Before hitting the San Francisco leg of the Legends Of The Summer Tour with Justin Timberlake...Hov made a quick stop at the Facebook offices to visit Mark Zuckerberg and the team...

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook and the world’s richest twentysomething, also left Harvard after one year to pursue his creation with ardor...Jack Dorsey, one of the founders of Twitter, first left the University of Missouri, at Rolla, and then NYU, before beginning his journey to the land of 140 characters. David Karp, the 24-year-old founder of Tumblr, the latest social-networking craze, may have them all beat: He dropped out of the Bronx High School of Science after his first year. Do these individual narratives amount to a hill of beans? Or are they just evidence that the best and brightest among us will always find a way to achieve their inevitable level of excellence, with or without the benefit of a traditional education?