Andrew Keen
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How Facebook gives an asymmetric advantage to negative messaging
Andrew Keen Contributor Andrew Keen is the author of three books: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and The Internet Is Not The Answer. He produces Futurecast, and is the host of Keen On. More posts by this contributor Facebook co-founder says its rise reveals the fault lines destroying the “American Dream” 2018 might be […] → Read More
Facebook co-founder says its rise reveals the fault lines destroying the “American Dream”
Andrew Keen Contributor Andrew Keen is the author of three books: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and The Internet Is Not The Answer. He produces Futurecast, and is the host of Keen On. More posts by this contributor Facebook co-founder says its rise reveals the fault lines destroying the “American Dream” More long term […] → Read More
2018 might be Amazon’s year to take a leading role in online advertising
With WPP’s over 200,000 employees and a $75 billion media book, Sir Martin Sorrell has a uniquely privileged insight into the future of the online advertising industry. And he believes that 2018 might be the year that a third company joins what he calls the Facebook/Google “duopoly” in online advertising and search. → Read More
More long term greed… Tim O’Reilly’s recipe for a successful 2018
Silicon Valley's problem, says Tim O'Reilly, is actually a structural problem with our entire economy. What’s gone wrong, O’Reilly argues, is that what.. → Read More
As the federal government falters, technology is leading a rise of the rest in statehouses nationwide
Andrew Keen Contributor Andrew Keen is the author of three books: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and The Internet Is Not The Answer. He produces Futurecast, and is the host of Keen On. → Read More
Fighting fake news online wins these three projects accolades
There are few greater threats to democracy in the world today than the proliferation of fake news and propaganda. So it was no surprise that this year’s National Democratic Institute’s (NDI) prestigious Democracy Award focused on websites and research organizations that are countering the distribution of fake news. → Read More
How one of America’s most powerful policemen learned to love social media after Hurricane Harvey
It hasn’t been a great few weeks for social media companies like Facebook and Twitter. But in spite of all the undeniable problems associated with fake.. → Read More
How human capital is tech’s most valuable resource
In spite of Silicon Valley’s awesome technology, human capital remains its most valuable resource. That, at least, is the opinion of best selling writer.. → Read More
Why Freada Kapor Klein thinks there’s a moral crisis in Silicon Valley
Andrew Keen Contributor Andrew Keen is the author of three books: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and The Internet Is Not The Answer. He produces Futurecast, and is the host of Keen On. → Read More
The cambrian moment in our innovation economy
According to Re-Imagine group chairman and serial tech entrepreneur Peter Hirshberg, we are at a decisive moment in our innovation economy. Silicon Valley.. → Read More
Why LA 2028 will be the first truly digital Olympic Games
In a recent interview at the Futurecast event at Warner Bros Studios in Hollywood Casey Wasserman, the founder and chief executive of the Los Angeles based.. → Read More
The Trump tech bubble
We may be partying like it's 1995. → Read More
Why AI is now at the heart of our innovation economy
We humans use machines as tools -- and the advent of AI doesn’t change this. “Machines aren’t rational,” argues Hilary Mason, implying that there are.. → Read More
The “attention economy” created by Silicon Valley is bankrupting us
"The attention economy” is shaping everything about contemporary life, according to Google's former design ethicist, Tristan Harris. That economy has.. → Read More
Does Silicon Valley have a moral responsibility to stop developing robots?
Should Silicon Valley exercise its moral authority to stop developing this job-killing technology? Andrew McAfee, author of "The Second Machine Age" and the.. → Read More
INNOVATE2017: Why tech should resist a Trump presidency
According to Ben Jealous the former CEO of the NCAAP, a partner at Kapor Capital and a surrogate for Bernie Sanders during the election, the correct response.. → Read More
INNOVATE2017: Why tech should resist a Trump presidency
According to Ben Jealous the former CEO of the NCAAP, a partner at Kapor Capital and a surrogate for Bernie Sanders during the election, the correct response.. → Read More
Is the tech world facing an apocalypse under President Trump?
What can Silicon Valley expect from a Trump administration? According to tech policy expert Larry Downes, predicting this particular future is akin the.. → Read More
How will Silicon Valley respond to Trump?
Kapor Capital founding partner Freada Kapor Klein isn't happy. Klein, one of technology's leading social activists and impact investors, has been "deeply.. → Read More
Driverless cars will be widespread by 2020
By the 2020 election driverless cars will have become ubiquitous, according to Rahul Sonnad, a co-founder of the zero-emission ride-sharing startup Tesloop... → Read More