Hello again.

This podcast is about something we never get tired of talking about, something that affects

all of us in so very many ways, the Internet Revolution.

And there have been three separate chapters already for discussion about it. First, those promises of a better future from Apple and Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft. It worked out fine for them. They're now the five most valuable companies in the world. Chapter 2. For consumers, it's another story. The backlash was described in Andrew Keen's book.

The Internet is not the answer.

But Keen still has hope, and there's Chapter 3.

His latest work is How to Fix the Future,

with the goal of achieving an open, decentralized digital technology

of the kind that was promised before.

Andrew Keene, welcome as always.

Thank you, Warren.

You're worried now that people are turning against tech and becoming Luddites.

Isn't it kind of late for that?

Well, I'm not so much worried that they're becoming Luddites,

but I am worried that people have fallen out of love with technology and now blaming it for many of our

contemporary ills, whether it's unemployment or the lack of civility in our culture or the disappearance of privacy.

Some of these critiques are correct. And I think there is a danger we may become

Luddites unless we fix many of the problems that digital technology has created.

You have compared the Internet revolution to the industrial revolution in the 19th century.

Tell us, if you will, what are some of the similarities in the way that

society has been changed as a whole and the way that individual lives have been changed?

Well, I think the big comparison is the profound disruption of these technological changes.

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