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Andrew Keen
Andrew Keen is the author of the book, Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture. The book has been published in twelve languages and was short-listed for the 2008 Higham’s Business Technology Book of the Year award. He writes a column about new media for The Independent.
So Obama is already a lock-in for Time magazine's 2008 Person of the Year. And that's before he actually accomplishes anything. So what, exactly, will the guy do and how will he be remembered in fifty years time? The rule in American politics is that Presidents get elected because of the economy and then spend most of their time focused on international affairs. With the good ship Hillary hopefully on the team as Secretary of State, Obama will soon recognize the intractability of the problems in Detroit and on Wall Street and will instead turn his statesmanlike gaze outward, toward American relations with the rest of the world.
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