Andrew Keen wrote a book on this in 2007 called The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture. I didn't agree with him on the copyright

Andrew Keen wrote a book on this in 2007 called The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture. I didn't agree with him on the copyright stuff (I loved Napster, pirate bay, sharing etc), but he was right on most of his points.