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Abstract

Andrew Keen: Introduction. In: The Cult of the Amateur. How Today's Internet is Killing our Culture, Crown Business, 2007.

  1. T.H. Huxley's Theory
    • If you provde infinite monkeys with typewriters, some monkey will eventually create a masterpiece – a play by Shakespeare, a Platonic dialoge, or an ecnomic tratise by Adam Smith.
    • fortells the consequences of a lattening culture that is blurring the lines between traditional audience and author, creator and consumer, expert and amateur
  2. Web 2.0
    • today's technology hooks all those monkeys up with typewriters
    • internet users with networked personal computers
    • they are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity
    • at the heard of self-publishing is the internet diary, the blog
    • kids can't tell the difference between professional journalism and blogs
    • for Generation Y utopians, every posting is just another version of the truth
  3. Wikipedia