Andrew Keen Quotes

Once a citizen feels he is not powerless, he can aspire for more change. ... First, the Web democratized commerce, and then it democratized media, and now it is democratizing democracy.

The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

The Internet has empowered us. It has empowered you, it has empowered me, and it has empowered some other guys as well.

The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access.

The amazing thing about technology is that people have power. We are seeing it all the time in that innocuous people you would never know are having their voices heard because of this ability and technology we have.

The advent of the Internet exposed the fact that the old business model for newspapers was broken. The world wide web fundamentally changed the media eco-system, challenging established journalistic practice in what is known as the mainstream media: radio, television, newspapers and magazines.

The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.

We must close the digital divide.

It's a wonderfully democratic method, publishing a text on the Internet.

In addition to all the good things it's done, the Internet has empowered an awful lot of people who would have been best off disempowered, including quite a few bloggers on both sides.

The inexorable rise of the Internet and the citizen journalist presents us all with challenges for the future.

The Internet can bring us much closer to the developed world.

I love participatory media, collective knowledge systems, user-generated content and the like, and spent much of my life and career participating in them and making them.

Digg is like your newspaper, but rather than a handful of editors determining what's on the front page, the masses do.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.

The Internet was crucial for our success. It is a great thing. It is a big democracy because people can choose what they like.

I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a fact checker.

We like to think of the Internet as a border-busting technology.

I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways.

All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.

The Internet is empowering everybody. It's empowering Democrats. It's empowering dictators. It's empowering criminals. It's empowering people who are doing really wonderful and creative things.

Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.

With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.