Why the Internet is Bad For Us

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
Andrew Keen, former Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author of the new book The Cult of the Amateur: How today's Internet is killing our culture (Currency, 2007), says blogs, wikis and other web 2.0 phenomena do more harm than good.

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