How to Fix the Future Quotes

“How can we fix a future in which algorithms replace not only vast swatches of the manual labor force, but also skilled workers like lawyers, doctors, and engineers?”
― Andrew Keen, How to Fix the Future

“many of the “world’s greatest public technocrats” —including Steve Jobs, Twitter cofounder Evan Williams, and former editor of Wired magazine Chris Anderson— “are also its greatest private technophobes.”27 Jobs, indeed, even discouraged his kids from using an iPad or iPhone.”
― Andrew Keen, How to Fix the Future

“During the Reformation, the great debate was about free will rather than universal basic income. All over sixteenth-century northern Europe—from England, Belgium, and Germany to Swiss cities such as Geneva, Basel, and Zurich—the conversation was about the role of human agency. It pitted Renaissance figures like Erasmus, More, and Holbein against populist preachers like Martin Luther and Huldrych Zwingli, the Swiss priest who initiated the Reformation in Zurich. It was a debate, you’ll remember, between humanists who believed that we have freedom to shape our own histories and those religious fanatics who believed in the existentially disempowering idea of predestination.”
― Andrew Keen, How to Fix the Future

“What a time to be alive!” Altman says about a networked age in which what he calls “the merge” of humans and smart machines is actually happening. Even our data-rich smartphones, he warns of this imminent Singularity, “already control us.”
― Andrew Keen, How to Fix the Future

“Price is a proponent of the “block universe” theory, which suggests that time itself might be what he calls an “anthropocentric” idea.1 “Physics has no sense of past or future,” Price argues, and so time—that seemingly inevitable stream of moments, we intuitively assume, that always links yesterday and today with tomorrow—is an illusion.”
― Andrew Keen, How to Fix the Future

“As in Russia, China has a not-so-secret two-million-person army composed mostly of government employees who flood social media with up to five hundred million pro-regime comments a year.17 The Chinese government sometimes even shuts down hostile websites using the “Great Cannon,” a tool specifically designed to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks.”
― Andrew Keen, How to Fix the Future

“to “redefine the nature of the country” by getting rid of bureaucracy and reinventing government as what he calls “a service.”
― Andrew Keen, How to Fix the Future

“In the future, we may no longer be in charge of our own creation, he suggests. Our technology might be developing a mind of its own, thereby excluding, disempowering, and enslaving us. The existential threat of self-conscious algorithms is very real, he says. They might be our final invention.”
― Andrew Keen, How to Fix the Future

“A 2013 Oxford University white paper, for example, forecasts that 47 percent of jobs could be eliminated by smart technology over the next two decades,20 and a 2017 McKinsey & Company report predicts that 49 percent of all the time we spend working could be automated by current technology.21”
― Andrew Keen, How to Fix the Future

“The idea that the internet could transform society by making it more open, more innovative, and more democratic.”
― Andrew Keen, How to Fix the Future

“If a lion could speak, we could not understand him,”
― Andrew Keen, How to Fix the Future

“we humans, for the moment at least, are no speedier, no smarter, and, really, no more self-aware than we were back in 1965.”
― Andrew Keen, How to Fix the Future