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Wiener, Anna, 1987-
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High technology industries -- California -- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).
Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)
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Wiener, Anna, 1987-
Wiener, Anna, 1987-
High technology industries -- California -- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).
Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)
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Uncanny
Valley
: a
memoir
/ Anna Wiener.
by
Wiener, Anna, 1987-
Thorndike Press, c2020.
Call #:
LP 338.4760979 W647u
Subjects
Wiener, Anna, 1987-
High technology industries -- California -- Santa Clara
Valley
(Santa Clara County).
Santa Clara
Valley
(Santa Clara County, Calif.)
ISBN:
9781432880064 (large print hc.)
Edition:
Large print ed.
Description:
409 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"Anna Wiener is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, where she writes about Silicon
Valley
, startup culture, and technology. She lives in San Francisco.
Uncanny
Valley
is her first book"--Jacket.
Summary:
"In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener — restless and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial — left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon
Valley
bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination, glory, and, of course, progress. Anna arrived amidst a massive cultural shift, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty, a new Silicon
Valley
began to emerge: one in far over its head, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building. Part coming-age-story, part portrait of an already-bygone era,
Uncanny
Valley
is rare first-person glimpse into the high-flying, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition, unregulated surveillance, wild fortune, and accelerating political power. With wit, candor, and heart, Anna deftly charts the tech industry's shift from self-appointed world savior to democracy-endangering liability, alongside a personal narrative of aspiration, ambivalence, and disillusionment. Unsparing and incisive,
Uncanny
Valley
is a cautionary tale, and a revelatory interrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting designers are only beginning to understand."--Jacket.
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