The Internet is Not the Answer: Why the Internet Has Been an Economic, Political and Cultural Disaster - and How it Can be Transformed - Hardcover

Keen, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1782393404 ISBN 13: 9781782393405

Verlag: Atlantic Books, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

In this sharp and witty book, long-time Silicon Valley observer and author Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the Internet has had a disastrous impact on all our lives.

By tracing the history of the Internet, from its founding in the 1960s to the creation of the World Wide Web in 1989, through the waves of start-ups and the rise of the big data companies to the increasing attempts to monetize almost every human activity, Keen shows how the Web has had a deeply negative effect on our culture, economy and society.

Informed by Keen's own research and interviews, as well as the work of other writers, reporters and academics, The Internet is Not the Answer is an urgent investigation into the tech world - from the threat to privacy posed by social media and online surveillance by government agencies, to the impact of the Internet on unemployment and economic inequality.

Keen concludes by outlining the changes that he believes must be made, before it's too late. If we do nothing, he warns, this new technology and the companies that control it will continue to impoverish us all.

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Andrew Keen is the executive director of the Silicon Valley salon FutureCast, a columnist for CNN and a regular commentator on all things digital. He is the author of Digital Vertigo and the international sensation and The Cult of the Amateur, which has been published in seventeen languages.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Atlantic Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1782393404
• ISBN 13: 9781782393405
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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