The Internet, created during the Cold War, has now ushered in one of the greatest shifts in society since the Industrial Revolution. There are many positive ways in which the Internet has contributed to the world, but as a society we are less aware of the Internet's deeply negative effects on our psychology, economy, and culture.In The Internet Is Not the Answer, Andrew Keen, a 20-year veteran of the tech industry, traces the technological and economic history of the Internet from its founding in the 1960s, through the rise of the big data companies, to the increasing attempts to monetize almost every human activity, and investigates how the Internet is reconfiguring our world, often at great cost. In this sharp, witty narrative, informed by the work of other writers, academics, and reporters, as well as his own wide-ranging research and interviews, Keen shows us the tech world, warts and all, and investigates what we can do to make sure the choices we make about the reconfiguring of our society do not lead to unpleasant unforeseen aftershocks.

The Internet Is Not the Answer

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Andrew Keen

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"Digital Vertigo provides an articulate, measured, contrarian voice against a sea of hype about social media. As an avowed technology optimist, I'm grateful for Keen who makes me stop and think before committing myself fully to the social revolution." ―Larry Downes, author of The Killer AppIn Digital Vertigo, Andrew Keen presents today's social media revolution as the most wrenching cultural transformation since the Industrial Revolution. Fusing a fast-paced historical narrative with front-line stories from today's online networking revolution and critiques of "social" companies like Groupon, Zynga and LinkedIn, Keen argues that the social media transformation is weakening, disorienting and dividing us rather than establishing the dawn of a new egalitarian and communal age. The tragic paradox of life in the social media age, Keen says, is the incompatibility between our internet longings for community and friendship and our equally powerful desire for online individual freedom. By exposing the shallow core of social networks, Andrew Keen shows us that the more electronically connected we become, the lonelier and less powerful we seem to be.

Digital Vertigo

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Business Culture

Constable

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The worldwide web is now a quarter of a century old. Invented in 1989, there can be no doubt that the web, and the new businesses it has enabled, has transformed the world. But, according to andrew keen, this disruption has been a terrible failure. In the internet is not the answer, keen has written a sharp, witty polemic proving that, so far, the web has been mostly a disaster for everyone except a tiny group of young privileged white male silicon valley multi-millionaires. Rather than making us wealthier, the unregulated digital market is making us all poorer. Rather than generating jobs, it is causing unemployment. Rather than holding our rulers to account, it is creating a brightly lit, radically transparent prison in which everything we do is recorded. Rather than promoting democracy, it is empowering mob rule. And rather than fostering a new renaissance, it is encouraging a culture of distraction, vulgarity and narcissism. So what is to be done? the next twenty-five years are key, keen explains, because, by 2040, everyone alive will be online. In the internet is not the answer, he disrupts the disrupters by laying out a five-part solution to the crisis. He says we need to rethink the web, revive government authority, rebuild the value of content, resurrect privacy and, above all, reconceive humanity. The stakes couldn't be higher, he warns. If we do nothing at all, this new technology and the companies that control it will continue to impoverish us all.

The Internet is Not the Answer

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E a celebracao do amadorismo. Qualquer um, por mais mal-informado que seja, pode publicar um blog, postar um video no YouTube ou alterar um verbete na Wikipedia. Esse anonimato da web poe em duvida a confiabilidade da informacao. E a distincao entre especialista e amador torna-se cada vez mais ambigua. A pirataria digital ja devastou a multibilionaria industria fonografica e ameaca a industria do cinema e a do livro. Oferecendo solucoes concretas que permitiriam frear a atmosfera inconsequente e narcisista da web, O culto do amador e um alerta dirigido a cada um de nos. Suas criticas podem ser radicais e polemicas, mas levantam uma discussao extremamente necessaria. Um sucesso internacional, publicado em mais de 12 linguas. Por conta da discussao gerada pelo livro nos Estados Unidos e na Inglaterra, Andrew Keen participou de diversos programas de TV e radio ao redor do mundo.

Culto do Amador - Cult Of Amateur (Em Portugues do Brasil)

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