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We have with us today, Andrew Keen.

He is a notable figure in Silicon Valley,

has been for several decades now.

And I thought we would do something different today

instead of focusing on one book,

he actually has built up a corpus of writings about Silicon Valley going back

a decade and a half. And so with his permission, I would like to run through those books

and get his reflection on what has been going on in the digital revolution. Because I actually

think his commentaries amount to

one of the more important reflections on this revolution or whatever it is that we have

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