Andrew Keen Quotes

• Being human in the digital world is about building a digital world for humans.

  Andrew Keen

  World, Digital, Being Human

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The key relationships in the future will not be between people, but between machines and people.

  Andrew Keen

  Keys, People, Machines

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• Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.

  Andrew Keen

  Creating, Mediocrity, Monkeys

  "The Cult of the Amateur". Book by Andrew Keen, June 5, 2007.

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• Zuckerberg wants to take us back to the dorm room where we all know each other. I don't want to, I want to go to the city.

  Andrew Keen

  Zuckerberg, Cities, Want

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• We have to move away from the entirely ad-supported business because the needs of it means that it has to keep driving into privacy, and that's not good for anyone because we all need to have something about us that is secret from some people.

  Andrew Keen

  Moving, Mean, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• For many of these people the social is just a mirror of themselves. I'm not against the social, but I want something genuinely social, not something that has been fetishized as social so that a group of people can feel better about themselves.

  Andrew Keen

  Feel Better, Mirrors, Want Something

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Free services like Wikipedia I don't think benefit anyone - they don't benefit the professional because they're not paid.

  Andrew Keen

  Thinking, Wikipedia, Benefits

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• There's a lot of ideology about "free", that we can have free services, free content, it's one of the reasons why the music industry which I defend has been decimated.

  Andrew Keen

  Reason Why, Music Industry, Ideology

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The history of the Web so far says that we are highly motivated to come up with ways to make sense of a world richer and more interesting than the constrained resources of the traditional media let on.

  Andrew Keen

  Media, Interesting, World

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• We don't have a choice about Facebook any more. The choice element is less obvious than it seems. Maybe the 1bn poor people and a few hundred thousand rich people can afford not to be on it.. the rest of us don't have any choice.

  Andrew Keen

  People, Choices, Elements

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• We don't live in the old world. But I don't want everyone to know what I've done. We all know every kind of example we could throw out there. The world we see online is very spiteful, we all know about people who have had bad stories thrown at them. If we were more generous I might be more happy about the reputation economy.

  Andrew Keen

  People, Example, Stories

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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