Keen, Andrew,

The Internet is not the answer / Andrew Keen. - x, 273 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: The building is the message -- The network -- The money -- The borken center -- The personal revolution -- The catastrophe of abundance -- The one percent economy -- Crystal man -- Epic fail -- Conclusion: the answer.

Andrew Keen offers a comprehensive look at what the Internet is doing to our lives. He traces the technological and economic history of the Internet, from its founding in the 1960s to the creation of the World Wide Web, through the waves of start-ups and the rise of the big data companies to the increasing attempts to monetize almost every human activity.

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Internet.
Internet--Social aspects.
Internet--Economic aspects.
Information society.
Online social networks--Social aspects.
Web 2.0--Social aspects.
Social change.

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