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by mindcrime
4000 days ago
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I saw it at B&N, read the back-jacket notes and thought it sounded interesting enough to read. I bought it, but haven't had time to actually read it yet. FWIW, the author (Andrew Keen[1]) made a bit of a stir with one of his earlier books The Cult of the Amateur. All in all, he seems to hold a generally negative view of the Internet and "Internet Culture" and a lot of the things that have been enabled by the Internet and which have become very popular. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Keen |
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"Keen returned to Silicon Valley in 1995 and founded Audiocafe.com, which received funding from Intel and SAP. The firm folded in April 2000 and after the demise of Audiocafe.com, Keen worked at various technology companies including Pulse 3D, SLO Media, Santa Cruz Networks, Jazziz Digital and Pure Depth, where he was director of global strategic sales. In 2005, Keen founded AfterTV, intended to bring clarity, understanding and foresight to the post-TV-centric media and consumer landscape."
"Tim O'Reilly has said 'I find, Andrew Keen's, his whole pitch, I think he was just pure and simple looking for an angle, to create some controversy to sell a book, I don't think there's any substance whatever to his rants.'"