A former Silicon Valley commentator and entrepreneur, Andrew Keen is the author of The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture, Digital Vertigo: How Today's Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us and The Internet Is Not the Answer. His latest book, How to Fix the Future, is due out in 2017.
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