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process. Many thanks also to my agent, George Lucas; to my researchers, Sophia Dominguez, Brittany Sholes, Quan Nguyen, and Nico Appel; and to Dodi Axelson for kindly setting up my visit to the Ericsson offices in Stockholm.
    I also got lucky in early 2010 when I recieved a call from my friend Keith Teare, Mike Arrington’s cofounder at TechCrunch, who was setting up the TechCrunchTV network. Keith recommended me to Paul Carr and Jon Orlin at TechCrunchTV, and my show Keen On . . . was the first program on the network, running for four years and including over two hundred interviews with leading Internet thinkers and critics. In particular, I’d like to thank Kurt Andersen, John Borthwick, Stewart Brand, Po Bronson, Erik Brynjolfsson, Nicholas Carr, Clayton Christensen, Ron Conway, Tyler Cowen, Kenneth Cukier, Larry Downes, Tim Draper, Esther Dyson, George Dyson, Walter Isaacson, Tim Ferriss, Michael Fertik, Ze Frank, David Frigstad, James Gleick, Seth Godin, Peter Hirshberg, Reid Hoffman, Ryan Holiday, Brad Horowitz, Jeff Jarvis, Kevin Kelly, David Kirkpatrick, Ray Kurzweil, Jaron Lanier, Robert Levine, Steven Levy, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Andrew McAfee, Gavin Newsom, George Packer, Eli Pariser, Andrew Rasiej, Douglas Rushkoff, Chris Schroeder, Tiffany Shlain, Robert Scoble, Dov Seidman, Gary Shapiro, Clay Shirky, Micah Sifry, Martin Sorrell, Tom Standage, Bruce Sterling, Brad Stone, Clive Thompson, Sherry Turkle, Fred Turner, Yossi Vardi, Hans Vestberg, Vivek Wadhwa, and Steve Wozniak for appearing on Keen On . . . and sharing their valuable ideas with me.

NOTES
    Preface
    1 The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture (New York: Currency/Doubleday, 2007), and Digital Vertigo: How Today’s Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us (New York: St. Martin, 2012).
    Introduction
    1 Carolyne Zinko, “New Private S.F. Club the Battery,” SFGate , October 4, 2013.
    2 Renée Frojo, “High-Society Tech Club Reborn in San Francisco,” San Francisco Business Times, April 5, 2013.
    3 The Battery describes itself on its website: “Indeed, here is where they came to refill their cups. To tell stories. To swap ideas. To eschew status but enjoy the company of those they respected. Here is where they came to feel at home on an evening out.” For more, see: thebatterysf.com/club .
    4 Liz Gannes, “Bebo Founders Go Analog with Exclusive Battery Club in San Francisco,” AllThingsD, May 21, 2013.
    5 Zinko, “New Private S.F. Club the Battery.”
    6 Ibid.
    7 “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes,” Twain originally said. See Alex Ayres, Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations (New York: Dover, 1999), p. 35.
    8 Julie Zeveloff, “A Tech Entrepreneur Supposedly Spent $35 Million on San Francisco’s Priciest House,” Business Insider , April 16, 2013, businessinsider.com/trevor -traina-buys-san-francisco-mansion-2013-4?op=1.
    9 Anisse Gross, “A New Private Club in San Francisco, and an Old Diversity Challenge,” New Yorker , October 9, 2013.
    10 Timothy Egan, “Dystopia by the Bay,” New York Times , December 5, 2013.
    11 David Runciman, “Politics or Technology—Which Will Save the World?,” Guardian , May 23, 2014.
    12 John Lanchester, “The Snowden Files: Why the British Public Should Be Worried About GCHQ,” Guardian , October 3, 2013.
    13 Thomas L. Friedman, “A Theory of Everything (Sort Of),” New York Times, August 13, 2011.
    14 Saul Klein, “Memo to boards: the internet is staying,” Financial Times , August 5, 2014.
    15 Mark Lilla, “The Truth About Our Libertarian Age,” New Republic , June 17, 2014.
    16 Craig Smith, “By the Numbers: 30 Amazing Reddit Statistics,” expandedramblings.com , February 26, 2014.
    17 Alexis Ohanian, Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed (New York: Grand Central, 2013).
    18 Alexis C. Madrigal, “It Wasn’t Sunil Tripathi: The