How to Fix the Future Quotes

“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