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How to Fix the Future

by Andrew Keen
How to Fix the Future
How to Fix the Future

Blueprint for digitized society's sustainable future.

If you're someone who's ever felt overwhelmed by the rapid transformations in our digital society, "How to Fix the Future" might resonate with you. It's not merely complaining about the state of things; Andrew Keen provides a constructive outlook, akin to a traveler gathering wisdom from various cultures to map out a sustainable path. Imagine a future where digital advancement and human values coexist beautifully – that's the core of Keen's vision.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

How to Fix the Future

by Andrew Keen
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ISBN: 9780802126641
Authors: Andrew Keen
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Date of Publication: 2018-02-06
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Business, Science, Sociology, Politics
Related Topics: Technology, Education, Social Issues, Society
Goodreads rating: 3.37
(rated by 270 readers)

Description

Former 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 an elemental 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. Traveling the world to interview experts in a wide variety of fields, from EU Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager, whose recent €2.4 billion fine to Google made headlines around the world, to successful venture capitalists who nonetheless see the tide turning, to CEOs of companies including The New York Times, Keen unearths approaches to tackling our digital future. There are five key tools that Keen identifies: regulation, competitive innovation, social responsibility, worker and consumer choice, and education. His journey to discover how these tools are being put into practice around the globe takes him from digital-oriented Estonia, where Skype was founded and where every citizen can access whatever data the government
 

Blueprint for digitized society's sustainable future.

If you're someone who's ever felt overwhelmed by the rapid transformations in our digital society, "How to Fix the Future" might resonate with you. It's not merely complaining about the state of things; Andrew Keen provides a constructive outlook, akin to a traveler gathering wisdom from various cultures to map out a sustainable path. Imagine a future where digital advancement and human values coexist beautifully – that's the core of Keen's vision.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.