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How to fix the future / Andrew Keen.

by Keen, Andrew.

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Atlantic Monthly Press, 2018.

Information society.

Information technology -- Economic aspects.

Information technology -- Social aspects.

9780802126641 (hc.)

xiii, 330 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-317) and index.

Preface: An internet of people -- Introduction: We've been here before -- More's Law -- Five tools for fixing the future -- What is broken -- Utopia: a case study (book one) -- Utopia: a case study (book two) -- Regulation -- Competitive innovation -- Civic responsibility -- Worker and consumer choice -- Education -- Conclusion: Our kids.

"Humanity has in the past undergone periods of creative destruction where improvements of social and economic conditions have come with harmful side effects. But, as former Internet entrepreneur Andrew Keen points out, we have ways to fix the problems we are facing now. He identifies five key tools: competitive innovation, consumer choice, regulation, social responsibility, and education. We see how experts, innovators, and entrepreneurs are using these tools to make positive change. In Estonia, an online portal has been developed to allow Estonians to see the data collected on them by the government, and Where an "e-residency" program is projected to bring 10 million e-citizens to the small Baltic state by 2025. In Germany, both regulation and competitive innovation are being used to address problems: Hamburg's data commissioner successfully blocked Facebook from collecting data on the country's users of WhatsApp, and developers of software such as Adblock Plus are helping ensure that advertising does not become the sole raison d'être for the Internet. In India, a young entrepreneur is building a new data ID system - quite a task in a country of 1.3 billion people. The author travels to Silicon Valley, where he finds a growing understanding that the pioneering tech entrepreneurs who have harvested unimaginable wealth from their innovations must become better citizens and help solve some of the problems they have created in the same way a previous generation of philanthropists - the Mellons, Carnegies, and Rockefellers - did. How we might preserve human values in an increasingly digital world and the steps we must take as societies and individuals to make the future something we can again look forward to. Andrew Keen is one of the world's best known and controversial commentators on the digital revolution. He is the author of Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and The Internet Is Not The Answer"--Provided by publisher.

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