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Is Innovation Fair? Andrew Keen Says No – titles Dana Oshiro a pertinent article on ReadWriteWeb.

Andrew Keen use to say a lot of things. I usually disagree with Andrew Keen. But this is also true: I *always* read Andrew Keen. Because Andre Keen makes me think.

“You can’t get nuggets of truth in 30 seconds on Twitter…Skepticism requires deep thinking. We have an increasing nihilism when it comes to traditional authority and yet few of the new authorities are doing the reading or groundwork. …When we simply assume that all traditional structures are wrong, we risk the populism of a Sarah Palin…“

Well, maybe Keen & Others looked for “truth” in Twitter, but not everybody did. I didn’t. And I’m not sure skepticism requires deep thinking. I can be skeptical by reaction, and reactions may occur (they generally do!) in a fraction of time. In a tweet.

Nevertheless, Keen made a point. And this is worth reading:

“Innovation doesn’t lead to justice and fairness. I’d argue there is a more dramatic inequality now then there ever was during the industrial revolution. We have fetishized change, but we are unfettered. If anything, the new media is less transparent and less accountable…I don’t have a problem with Twitter or new media, my problem is that digital utopians have dressed up their ideology to sound like democracy…Google has become the master of seeming like an altruistic and public company and yet laughing all the way to the bank.”

So, go there and read it.