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Andrew Keen
Andrew Keen is an Internet entrepreneur who founded Audiocafe.com in 1995 and built it into a popular first generation Internet company. He is currently the executive director of the Silicon Valley salon FutureCast, a Senior Fellow at CALinnovates, the host of the "Keen On" Techonomy chat show,... show more

Andrew Keen is an Internet entrepreneur who founded Audiocafe.com in 1995 and built it into a popular first generation Internet company. He is currently the executive director of the Silicon Valley salon FutureCast, a Senior Fellow at CALinnovates, the host of the "Keen On" Techonomy chat show, and a columnist for CNN.He is the author of three books: CULT OF THE AMATEUR: How The Internet Is Killing Our Culture (2007), DIGITAL VERTIGO: How Today's Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing and Disorienting Us (2012) and INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER (2015).
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Dusty Volumes
Dusty Volumes rated it 12 years ago
I can't tell if the writing style is a clever attempt to actually induce vertigo, or if this book is simply ridiculously badly written, but I fear it's the latter. It's as if Keen has accumulated a massive clippings file over the last few years, and writing this book was simply a giant jigsaw puzzle...
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 13 years ago
Oh noes! After a brief period in the history of humanity when people were paying others to amuse and inform them, now they are once again amusing and informing themselves and one another.
riley
riley rated it 13 years ago
So where do I begin? I must say that I sympathize with him. I mean, it makes no sense that major corporations are buying up these sites which generate no money for billions of dollars. Fine. And wikipedia is problematic, especially if no one educates kids and students about what proper sources c...
DesireesShelves
DesireesShelves rated it 18 years ago
A very pessimistic view of the future of media. He believes our books, movies and music will disappear only to be replaced with amateurs taking over. Typical web 2.0 stuff where all of us become publishers, reviewers and movie makers a la youtube... Since we are all amateurs and not getting paid for...
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