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

    By Andrew Keen

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtlantic Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781786491671
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    How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age
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    Andrew Keen

    Andrew Keen és un controvertit periodista especialitzat en el món d'internet que ja ha publicat altres títols com Cult of the Amateur i Digital Vertigo. És director executiu del saló d'innovació de Silicon Valley FutureCast, columnista de la CNN i un dels especialistes d'internet més reconeguts del món.

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      A significant work, suggesting ways in which societies will overcome the iron hold of the internet and new media, that have spelt the demise of traditional creative arts and led to a few internet giants taking over much of the business.
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      Dining with the CognoscentiTech has created at least as many problems as it has solved, and there are more on the way. Andrew Keen has sacrificed his stomach, meeting with experts in every field in restaurants around the world to discuss the ways out. This rambling tour of the world touches down where thinkers have identified potential solutions. They all have their opinions and some are acting on them. But it is totally scattered and no seismic shifts are evident. Even the universal basic income, which has support all over the world, is still stuck in the pilot project stage, despite endless proof of concept. So the fixes are not very specific.The framework for How To Fix The Future is Thomas More’s Utopia, now 500 years young. Keen keeps referring to aspects of it, showing how More’s ideas do or do not apply to our situation today, as well as how little things have changed. He is particularly enamored of Holbein’s map of Utopia, which can be viewed as human skull. Keen refers to it numerous times.Basically, there are no new solutions, just old ones coming back to life. Musicians are striking against the streaming services. Uber, Lyft, UPS and Fedex drivers want recognition as full employees, not just “independent contractors”. Schools are focusing on developing inquisitive humans (as opposed to test takers). More millennials are purchasing their music and news. Estonia and Singapore are making a lot of data public, and protected from fraud by date stamps. All over the world, small steps are appearing. But for every Redfin, paying real estate agents a living wage plus benefits, there is a Walmart, keeping employees part time, minimum wage, and relying on Obamacare for their health benefits. For every Freada Kapor Klein, there is a Martin Shkreli.Keen separates fixes into five buckets:-government or legal regulation (more accountability, and anti-trust activity)-competitive innovation (encouraging and democratizing startups against the winner-take-all)-social responsibility by citizens (relying on tech billionaires to do the right thing)-consumer choice (including trade unionization)-education (more physical activity, less screen time)Keen admits these fixes are not star-crossed. They won’t necessarily work or change the world, and they provide their own risks. But for Keen, who has been criticizing the internet for years, this is a turnabout.David Wineberg