Uncanny
Valley: A Memoir
by Anna Wiener
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A
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"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." --Jia Tolentino,
author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
A
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a January 2020 IndieNext Pick.
An Amazon Best Book of January. One of Vogue's 22 Books to Read This Winter,
The Washington Post's 10 Books to Read in January, ELLE's 12 Best Books to Read
in 2020, The New York Times's 12 Books to Read in January, Esquire's 15 Best
Winter Books, Paste's 10 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2020, and
Entertainment Weekly's 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2020.
The
prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining
memoir of our digital age
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.
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-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.
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.
Product
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File Size :
1118 KB
Print Length : 279 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN : 0374278016
Publisher : MCD
(January 14, 2020)
Publication Date : January 14, 2020
Sold by : Amazon.com Services
LLC
Language : English
ASIN : B07QYHLP97
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