The Internet Is Not the Answer (43 page)
Read The Internet Is Not the Answer Online
Authors: Andrew Keen
20 Jonathan Freedland, “From Memory to Sexuality, the Digital Age Is Changing Us Completely,”
Guardian
, June 21, 2013.
21 Mark Lilla, “The Truth About Our Libertarian Age,”
New Republic
, June 17, 2014.
22 Ibid.
23 Douglas Rushkoff,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
(New York: Current, 2014), p. 9.
24 Mic Wright, “Is ‘Shadow’ the Creepiest Startup Ever? No, CIA Investment Palantir Owns That Crown,”
Telegraph
, September 21, 2013.
25 Cass R. Sunstein,
Why Nudge: The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014), p. 116.
26 Cohen, “Beware the Lure of Mark Zuckerberg’s Cool Capitalism.”
27
europarl.europa.eu/ep_products/poster_invitation.pdf
.
28 John Naughton, “Amazon’s History Should Teach Us to Beware ‘Friendly’ Internet Giants,”
Guardian
, February 22, 2014.
29 Richard Sennett, “Real Progressives Believe in Breaking Up Google,”
Financial Times
, June 28, 2013.
30 Ibid.
31 Rebecca Solnit, “Who Will Stop Google?,”
Salon
, June 25, 2013.
32 Philip Oltermann, “Google Is Building Up a Digital Superstate, Says German Media Boss,”
Guardian
, April 16, 2014.
33 Mathew Ingram, “Giants Behaving Badly. Google, Facebook and Amazon Show Us the Downside of Monopolies and Black-Box Algorithms,” GigaOm, May 23, 2014.
34 Polly Toynbee, “Snowden’s Revelations Must Not Blind Us to Government as a Force for Good,”
Guardian
, June 10, 2013.
35 Simon Bowers and Rajeev Syal, “MP on Google Tax Avoidance Scheme: ‘I Think That You Do Evil,’”
Guardian
, May 16, 2013.
36 Marc Rotenberg, “Put Teeth in Google Privacy Fines,” CNN, April 29, 2013.
37 Alex Hern, “Italy Gives Google 18 Months to Comply with European Privacy Regulations,”
Guardian
, July 22, 2014.
38 “When Will the Justice Department Take On Amazon?,”
Nation
, July 16, 2014.
39 Ingrid Lunden, “More Woe for Amazon in Germany as Antitrust Watchdog Investigates Its 3rd Party Pricing Practices,”
TechCrunch
, October 21, 2013.
40 “Amazon Sued by US Regulators over Child In-App Purchases,” BBC Business News, July 10, 2014.
41 Brad Stone, “Amazon May Get Its First Labor Union in the U.S.,”
Bloomberg Businessweek
, December 17, 2013.
42 David Streitfeld and Melissa Eddy, “As Publishers Fight Amazon, Books Vanish,”
New York Times
, May 23, 2014.
43 Stone,
The Everything Store
, p. 340.
44 Marcus Wohlsen, “Why the Sun Is Setting on the Wild West of Ride-Sharing,”
Wired
, August 2, 2013.
45 April Dembosky and Tim Bradshaw, “Start-ups: Shareholder Societies,”
Financial Times
, August 7, 2013.
46 Ben Popper, “Uber Agrees to New National Policy That Will Limit Surge Pricing During Emergencies,”
Verge
, July 8, 2014.
47 Chris Welch, “Airbnb Hosts Must Install Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Detectors by End of 2014,”
Verge
, February 21, 2014.
48 Eric T. Schneiderman, “Taming the Digital Wild West,”
New York Times
, April 22, 2014.
49 Carolyn Said, “S.F. Ballot Would Severely Limit Short-Term Rentals,”
SFGate
, April 29, 2014.
50 Cale Guthrie Weissman, “Working Families Party Joins the Anti-Airbnb Brigade,”
Pando Daily
, May 2, 2014.
51 Kevin Collier, “Philadelphia Jumps the Gun, Bans 3-D-Printed Guns,”
Daily Dot
, November 22, 2013.
52 John Sunyer, “No Comment?,”
Financial Times
, May 24, 2014.
53 Associated Press, “‘Revenge Porn’ Outlawed in California,”
Guardian
, October 1, 2013.
54 Pamela Druckerman, “The French Do Buy Books. Real Books,”
New York Times
, July 9, 2014.
55 Andrew Wallenstein, “Cable Operator Pitching TV Industry on Plan to Convert Illegal Downloads to Legal Transaction Opportunities,”
Variety
, August 5, 2013,
variety.com/2013/digital/news/comcast
-developing-anti-piracy-alternative-to-six-strikes-exclusive-1200572790.
56 “Recording Industry Welcomes Support by Payment Providers to Tackle Illegal Online Sale of Unlicensed Music,” International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, March 2, 2011,
ifpi.org/content/section_news/20110302.html
.
57 Bill Rosenblatt, “Ad Networks Adopt Notice-and-Takedown for Ads on Pirate Sites,” Copyright and Technology Blog, July 21, 2013,
copyrightandtechnology.com/category/economics
.
58 Victoria Espinel, “Coming Together to Combat Online Piracy and Counterfeiting,”
Whitehouse.gov
, July 15, 2013.
59 Kyle Alspach, “Steve Case: Silicon Valley Has Wrong Mindset for Next Internet Revolution,”
Techflash
, October 10, 2013.
60 Mariana Mazzucato,
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
(London: Anthem, 2013), p. 105.
61 Joseph Schumpeter, “The Entrepreneurial State,”
Economist
, August 31, 2013.
62 Michael Ignatieff, “We Need a New Bismarck to Tame the Machines,”
Financial Times
,
February 11, 2014.
63 Catherine Bigelow, “An Honor for Danielle Steel and a Downton for All,”
SFGate
, January 9, 2014.
64 Chrystia Freeland,
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
(New York: Penguin, 2012).
65 Chrystia Freeland, “Sympathy for the Toffs,”
New York Times
, January 24, 2014.
66 Ibid.
67 William Powers,
Hamlet’s BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age
(HarperCollins, 2010).
68 Jeff Jarvis, “What Society Are We Building Here?,” Buzzmachine, August 14, 2014.
Table of Contents
The Internet Is Not the Answer
The Internet Is Not the Answer
Introduction THE BUILDING IS THE MESSAGE
Chapter Three THE BROKEN CENTER
Chapter Four THE PERSONAL REVOLUTION
Chapter Five THE CATASTROPHE OF ABUNDANCE
