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Revolution? Grow up.  Post categories:  Andrew Keen | 10:13 UK
time, Monday, 17 August 2009  (Andrew Keen is an acclaimed
author, commentator and speaker. Previously a pioneering
internet entrepreneur, he is reknowned for his challenging
critiques of Web 2.0, social media and modern internet culture.
The following post is published with kind permission and
represents Andrew's views; this does not necessarily reflect the
views of the BBC or the Digital Revolution production.)
Developed by childish grown-ups for grown-up children, the
Internet has encouraged a lot of child-like nonsense from the
BBC Digital Revolution team about the withering away of power
and of the state. That eternal adolescent, Bill Thompson, is so
excited about the Internet's potential to revolutionize our
political species-being, he says, supposedly seriously, that it
"counts as one of the most important things we've managed to do
as a species." While the irony is actually on an eq