How to Fix the Future - Staying Human in the Digital Age (Hardcover, Main)

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.

General

Imprint:	Atlantic Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2018
Authors:	Andrew Keen
Dimensions:	240 x 165 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	368
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-1-78649-164-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > Social forecasting, futurology Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Information technology industries
LSN:	1-78649-164-8
Barcode:	9781786491640

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