This excerpt originally appeared in The Technology Liberation Front on May 31, 2012.

"My latest Forbes column takes a look at Andrew Keen’s latest book,Digital Vertigo: How Today’s Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us."

"Let’s put an end to this silliness. George Orwell’s 1984 is a book about coercive, totalitarian governmental control in which citizens are forcibly and relentlessly brainwashed by an all-encompassing tyrannical Big Brother. It is a world of propaganda, censorship, historical revisionism, mind control, top-down planning, and total war."