Andrew Keen

Is foursquare becoming a noun? Judging from the cover of Carmine Gallo’s new book, The Power of foursquare: 7 Innovative Ways to Get Your Customers To Check In Wherever They…

It’s not every American who can wow Paris. But earlier this month at Le Web, the author and communications expert, Carmine Gallo, impressed a Gallic audience with a brilliant speech…

Love or hate him, there is no denying that Steve Jobs was a control freak. As Walter Isaacson’s magisterial biography of Jobs notes, Steve’s control freakery was so intense that…

At the heart of the enigma of Steve Jobs lies a riddle about authority. On the one hand, Jobs was an intrinsically anti-authoritarian figure whose like was a litany of…

At the beginning of his rich and very fair biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson notes that Steve himself “found the endeavor of assessing historic influence fascinating.” So when Isaacson…

Who, exactly, was Steve Jobs? Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs has sparked an intriguing debate about the identity of the real Jobs. According to The New Yorker’s Malcolm Gladwell, Isaacson’s biography proved…

Did you know that you were a genius? Yes, we are all geniuses, every one of us – at least according to Gina Rudan, the author of Practical Genius: The…

Can we save the physical book? Some say that a bookless world may be inevitable. Others are more sanguine, seeing the Apple retail model potentially revolutionizing the traditional old bookstore.…

Much has been said about the real impact of the Internet on the music industry. But sometimes it’s useful to talk to musicians – real start-up musicians – about both…

Nick Carr insists that the Internet is wrecking our brains. But not everyone shares Carr’s techno-cultural pessimism. One of the most articulate champions of the Internet’s impact on our mental…

Yes, we’ve heard it before: cell phones, they say, give us cancer. But this time, the message is from a noted medical researcher and this time it’s a message that…

Last week, Intuit co-founder Scott Cook appeared on my show and extolled the virtues of the Chinese economic development model. Cook used the example of Deng Xiaoping’s establishment of “Special…

I wore my yellow t-shirt to honor the return of Mike Daisey to TechcrunchTV. Daisey, the great monologist whose acclaimed show, “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs”, is…

“As Mark decides, so will Facebook go,” David Kirkpatrick told me about the future of Facebook at his Techonomy conference earlier this week. Kirkpatrick, the author of the excellent The…

Few people are more intimate with economic bubbles than Esther Dyson, the peripatetic investor and entrepreneur who travels more than 25,000 miles a year around the world in search of…

Sometimes, it’s the soft spoken guys who throw the biggest bombs. At this week’s Techonomy conference, Intuit co-founder Scott Cook was pretty radical in his economic and political analysis. Arguing…

Roger McNamee, the co-founder of $1.9 billion fund Elevation Partners, wants to occupy himself. When I talked with him earlier this week at Techonomy, he expressed the not now uncommon…

Roger McNamee might think that we are in the midst of the revolution, but according to Microsoft Chief Strategy and Research Officer Craig Mundie, the race to become the dominant…

And just when you thought things had finally settled down, everything – and I mean everything – is changing once again. That’s at least the view of Roger McNamee, the…

The good news about information technology, according to Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, the authors of Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and…

We are not nearly as innovative as we think we are. That, at least, is the view of Tyler Cowen, a professor of economics at George Mason university and the…

Proud Princeton drop-out and imminent mega billionaire, Seth Priebatsch is the self-styled Chief Ninja of the gaming/payments platform SCVNGR. Having raised $20 million and now employing 120 people, Priebatsch believes…

Everything, it seems, is becoming collaborative. From Airbnb to RentCycle to Zipcar, we are swapping our cars, our homes, even our clothes with each other. According to Lauren Anderson from…

The news, I’m afraid, is dire. The Internet is about to be destroyed by big media. It is about be killed by two Congressional bills – The ProtectIP and The…

As the co-founder of Priceline, serial entrepreneur Scott Case is a natural startup guy. Indeed, his fever for startups is so intense that he is now CEO of StartUp America…

I couldn’t resist it. When I bumped into Highland Capital General Partner Peter Bell at Fast Company’s Innovation Uncensored event last week, I had to slip in a question about…

According to Virgin America CEO & President David Cush, we hate our airlines because of the dehumanizing nature of travel. And airlines, Cush explained to me after he spoke last…

Imagine the world in five or ten years time – will television and the Internet be the same thing? I asked HBO’s SVP of digital platforms, Alison Moore, when I…

Fast Company magazine has landed in San Francisco. Last week, the magazine put on its first Bay Area event – “Innovation Uncensored,” which brought together innovators in many different industries…

It’s an old dilemma. Should entrepreneurs rely on their reason or their instinct? Should they trust their gut or should they trust their mind? The good news, least according to…