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How Facebook gives an asymmetric advantage to negative messaging
Andrew Keen Contributor Andrew Keen is the author of three books: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and The Internet Is Not The Answer. He produces Futurecast, and is the host of Keen On. More post
Facebook co-founder says its rise reveals the fault lines destroying the “American Dream”
Andrew Keen Contributor Andrew Keen is the author of three books: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and The Internet Is Not The Answer. He produces Futurecast, and is the host of Keen On. More post
2018 might be Amazon’s year to take a leading role in online advertising
With WPP’s over 200,000 employees and a $75 billion media book, Sir Martin Sorrell has a uniquely privileged insight into the future of the online advertising industry. And he believes that 2018 mig
More long term greed… Tim O’Reilly’s recipe for a successful 2018
Silicon Valley's problem, says Tim O'Reilly, is actually a structural problem with our entire economy. What’s gone wrong, O’Reilly argues, is that what he calls “short-term greed” has repla
As the federal government falters, technology is leading a rise of the rest in statehouses nationwide
Andrew Keen Contributor Andrew Keen is the author of three books: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and The Internet Is Not The Answer. He produces Futurecast, and is the host of Keen On. More post
Fighting fake news online wins these three projects accolades
There are few greater threats to democracy in the world today than the proliferation of fake news and propaganda.
So it was no surprise that this year's National Democratic Institute’s (NDI) pr
How one of America’s most powerful policemen learned to love social media after Hurricane Harvey
Andrew Keen Contributor Andrew Keen is the author of three books: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and The Internet Is Not The Answer. He produces Futurecast, and is the host of Keen On. More post
How human capital is tech’s most valuable resource
In spite of Silicon Valley’s awesome technology, human capital remains its most valuable resource. That, at least, is the opinion of best selling writer and entrepreneur Dan Schawbel.
Why Freada Kapor Klein thinks there’s a moral crisis in Silicon Valley
Every week, it seems, brings new ethical questions about Silicon Valley. A seemingly endless rash of sexual scandals in the venture community. Twitter supposedly used by anonymous Russian trolls t
The cambrian moment in our innovation economy
Andrew Keen Contributor Andrew Keen is the author of three books: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and The Internet Is Not The Answer. He produces Futurecast, and is the host of Keen On. More post
Why LA 2028 will be the first truly digital Olympic Games
In a recent interview at the Futurecast event at Warner Bros Studios in Hollywood Casey Wasserman, the founder and chief executive of the Los Angeles based talent agency Wasserman Media Group, elab
The Trump tech bubble
We may be partying like it's 1995.
Why AI is now at the heart of our innovation economy
We humans use machines as tools -- and the advent of AI doesn’t change this. “Machines aren’t rational,” argues Hilary Mason, implying that there are many more important things for us to worry
The ‘attention economy’ created by Silicon Valley is bankrupting us
"The attention economy” is shaping everything about contemporary life, according to Google's former design ethicist, Tristan Harris. That economy has brought us Donald Trump by bankrupting our intel
Does Silicon Valley have a moral responsibility to stop developing robots?
Should Silicon Valley exercise its moral authority to stop developing this job-killing technology? Andrew McAfee, author of "The Second Machine Age" and the just published "Machine, Platform, Crowd"
INNOVATE2017: Why tech should resist a Trump presidency
According to Ben Jealous the former CEO of the NCAAP, a partner at Kapor Capital and a surrogate for Bernie Sanders during the election, the correct response is to “resist” Trump. That’s becaus
How will Silicon Valley respond to Trump?
Kapor Capital founding partner Freada Kapor Klein isn't happy. Klein, one of technology's leading social activists and impact investors, has been "deeply troubled" by the election of Donald Trump.
Driverless cars will be widespread by 2020
By the 2020 election driverless cars will have become ubiquitous, according to Rahul Sonnad, a co-founder of the zero-emission ride-sharing startup Tesloop. The impact, he predicts, will be “complet
INNOVATE2016: Are we on the verge of Brexit 2.0
The danger is taking the election for granted and then being sucker punched by a vast undercurrent of populist anger against the establishment.