The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture. Reflections on a new monkey business
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The monkeys are taking over the show, declares techno-entrepreneur Andrew Keen in The Cult of the Amateur, a broadside against the culturally and economically corrosive effects of the Internet's permeation of everyday life and work.
The simian allusion here is to T.H. Huxley's ''infinite monkey theorem.'' Keen reminds readers that Huxley theorized back in the 19th century that if infinite monkeys were equipped with infinite typewriters, eventually some of them would write masterpieces comparable to those of Shakespeare, Plato and Adam Smith.
By Cecil Johnson McClatchy News Service
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