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Andrew Keen
  24th May 2008  —  Issue 146
Is the web 2.0 revolution making us more co-operative, or is it turning us into vulgar narcissists who can't relate to one another? Three recent books offer differing views of what technology is doing to our humanity

Against the Machine
by Lee Siegel (Spiegel & Grau, $9.99)

We-Think
by Charles Leadbeater (Profile, £12.99)

Here Comes Everybody
by Clay Shirky (Allen Lane, £20)

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Andrew Keen is the author of The Cult of the Amateur (Nicholas Brealey Publishing)

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