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.
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