Description: In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider and pundit Keen exposes the grave consequences of today's new participatory Web 2.0, and reveals how it threatens the economy as well as the very innovation and creativity that forms the fabric of American achievement.
Review Quotes: "A powerful, provocative, and beautifully written stop-and-breathe book in the midst of the greatest paradigm shift in information and communications history."
--Christopher M. Schroeder, CEO, HealthCentral Network (healthcentral.com), and former CEO and publisher, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive
"Page after page of really interesting insight and research. I look forward to the much-needed debate about the problems that Keen articulates--which can't be lightly dismissed."
--Larry Sanger, cofounder, Wikipedia and founder, Citizendium
--Chicago Tribune "Andrew Keen is a brilliant, witty, classically educated technoscold--and thank goodness. The world needs an intellectual Goliath to slay Web 2.0's army of Davids."
--Jonathan Last, online editor, Weekly Standard