The Internet Encourages a Pre-Copernican Understanding of the Universe

The Internet isn’t the bastion of community, connectivity, and social life that we’re constantly told it is, says Andrew Keen, author of The Internet is not the answer. It’s increasingly an echo chamber where people go to confirm their prefabricated opinions about politics, society, and the world.

Moreover, the platforms uniquely designed to facilitate social interaction fail because they are, in actuality, pure platforms for the self. Keen worries that we have returned to the Ptolemaic beli...