Uncanny Valley

A Memoir

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<p><b>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br><br><b>"A definitive document of a world in transition: I won't be alone in returning to it for clarity and consolation for many years to come."</b> <b>-Jia Tolentino, author of <i>Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion</i></b><br><br><b>The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age.</b><br><br>In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener-stuck, broke, 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.<br><br>Anna arrived during 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.<br><br>Part coming-of-age story, part portrait of an already-bygone era, Anna Wiener's memoir is a rare first-person glimpse into 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.<br><br>Unsparing and incisive, <i>Uncanny Valley</i> is a cautionary tale, and a revelatory interrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting designers are only beginning to u

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781250785695

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

211 x 142 x 25 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Verlag / Hersteller

Macmillan USA