PublishedAtlantic, March 2018 |
ISBN9781786491664 |
FormatSoftcover, 368 pages |
Dimensions23cm × 15.5cm × 2.8cm |
In How to Fix the Future, Andrew Keen combines his experiences in Silicon Valley with extensive interviews and analysis to identify the strategies we need in order to tackle the huge challenges of this digital century.
This ground-breaking book is the result of extensive travels around the world, from India to Estonia, Germany to Singapore. He examines the best (and worst) practices in five key areas - competition, innovation, oversight, self-regulation and social responsibility - and concludes by examining whether we are seeing the beginning of the end of the America-centric digital world. Throughout he shows that the stakes could not be higher: how can we remain human in an age of digital machines?
Bill is one of the founders of Boffins and has been involved in selecting the books we stock since our beginning in 1989. His favourite reading is history, with psychology, current affairs, and business books coming close behind. His hobbies are reading, food, reading, drinking, reading, and sleeping.
The internet has morphed from a tool providing efficiencies and opportunities for consumers and business to a force that is profoundly reshaping our societies and our world – not all in our best interests. Andrew Keen looks at 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. He looks across the globe at how different countries are responding to the changes wrought by the internet in the areas of regulation, innovation, social responsibility, consumer choice and education. He shows us what we need to do – as individuals and as a society - to try to preserve human values in the digital world and to make the future something to look forward to.
