How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age (Hardback)

Andrew Keen (Author)

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How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age

How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age

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How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age

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Internet entrepreneur Andrew Keen was among the earliest to write about the dangers that the Internet poses to our culture and society. His 2007 book The Cult of the Amateur was critical in helping advance the conversation around the Internet, which has now morphed from a tool providing efficiencies and opportunities for consumers and business to a force that is profoundly reshaping our societies and our world.

In his new book, How to Fix the Future, Keen focuses on what we can do about this seemingly intractable situation. Looking to the past to learn how we might change our future, he describes how societies tamed the excesses of the Industrial Revolution, which, like its digital counterpart, demolished long-standing models of living, ruined harmonious environments and altered the business world beyond recognition.

Travelling across the globe, from India to Estonia, Germany to Singapore, he investigates the best (and worst) practices in five key areas - regulation, innovation, social responsibility, consumer choice and education - and concludes by examining whether we are seeing the beginning of the end of the America-centric digital world.

Powerful, urgent and deeply engaging, How to Fix the Future vividly depicts what we must do if we are to try to preserve human values in an increasingly digital world and what steps we might take as societies and individuals to make the future something we can again look forward to.

  • Publisher: Atlantic Books
  • ISBN: 9781786491640
  • Pages: 368
  • Weight: 0.7
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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