Uncanny valley: a memoir
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"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. This 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." --Book jacket.
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Wiener, A. (2020). Uncanny valley: a memoir. First edition. New York, MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Wiener, Anna, 1987-. 2020. Uncanny Valley: A Memoir. New York, MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Wiener, Anna, 1987-, Uncanny Valley: A Memoir. New York, MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
MLA Citation (style guide)Wiener, Anna. Uncanny Valley: A Memoir. First edition. New York, MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
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