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How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture
by Andrew Keen
In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today’s new participatory Web 2.0 and reveals how it threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the very innovation and creativity that forms the fabric of American achievement.
"[T]his jeremiad about the death of "our cultural standards and moral values" heads swiftly downhill." - PW.
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