Rather than the answer, the Internet is actually the central question about our connected twenty-first-century world. Rather than promoting economic fairness, it is a central reason for the growing gulf between rich and poor and the hollowing out of the middle class. Rather than making us wealthier, the distributed capitalism of the new networked economy is making most of us poorer. Rather than generating more jobs, this digital disruption is a principal cause of our structural unemployment crisis. Rather than creating more competition, it has created immensely powerful new monopolists like Google and Amazon. Rather than creating transparency and openness, the Internet is creating a panopticon of information-gathering and surveillance … Continue reading Andrew Keen