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Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

‏125.00 ₪
ISBN13
9780008296858
יצא לאור ב
London
זמן אספקה
21 ימי עסקים
עמודים
304
פורמט
Hardback
תאריך יציאה לאור
23 בינו׳ 2020
The prescient, page-turning account of a journey into Silicon Valley: a defining memoir for our digital age.
The prescient, page-turning account of a journey into Silicon Valley: a defining memoir for our digital age. At twenty-five years old, Anna Wiener was beginning to tire of her assistant job in New York publishing. There was no room to grow, and the voyeuristic thrill of answering someone else's phone had worn thin. Within a year she had moved to San Francisco to take up a job at a data analytics start-up in Silicon Valley. Leaving her business casual skirts and shirts in the wardrobe, she began working in company-branded T-shirts and hoodies. She had a healthy income for the first time in her life. She felt like part of the future. But a tide was beginning to turn. People were speaking of tech start-ups as surveillance companies. Out of sixty employees, only eight of her colleagues were women. Casual sexism was rife. Sexual harassment cases were proliferating. And soon, like everyone else, she was addicted to the internet, refreshing the news, refreshing social media, scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. Slowly, she began to realise that her blind faith in ambitious, arrogant young men from America's soft suburbs wasn't just her own personal pathology. It had become a global affliction. Uncanny Valley is a coming of age story set against the backdrop of our generation's very own gold rush. It's a story about the tension between old and new, between art and tech, between the quest for money and the quest for meaning - about how our world is changing for ever.
מידע נוסף
עמודים 304
פורמט Hardback
ISBN10 0008296855
יצא לאור ב London
תאריך יציאה לאור 23 בינו׳ 2020
זמן אספקה 21 ימי עסקים