The internet is overrated and even harmful according to Andrew Keen’s The Culture of the Amateur, says The Observer’s Killian FoxThe Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy by Andrew Keen: Bloggers are notoriously touchy so it’s unlikely they’ll respond with restraint to the comparison that opens Andrew Keen’s polemic. Adapting the ‘infinite monkey theorem’, Keen, a British media commentator based in California, updates the typewriting primates to internet users. These ‘monkeys’ are not producing Shakespeare, they’re deluging us with ‘everything from uninformed political commentary, to unseemly home videos, to embarrassingly amateurish music, to unreadable poems, reviews, essays, and novels’.
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