Talk Cocktail

The Internet is Not the Answer


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The industrial revolution changed the world.  It changed the nature of work, it displaced workers, it ushered in the Gilded Age and created more inequality.  It shrank the world, drove consumerism, and reshaped political ideology.
The Internet revolution, 150 years later, has had  startling  similar effects.  We worship at the altar of creative destruction, we fetishize technology and the freedom and democratization that the Internet had promised.  But at what price?  
Simply, can the same technology and companies that fractured and reshaped the world, now be what we need to put it back together again?
Andrew Keen, argues that The Internet Is Not the Answer.
My conversation with Andrew Keen:

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