Uncanny Valley - Anna Wiener

Uncanny Valley

A Memoir

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Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
2020
Fourth Estate Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-00-831788-1 (ISBN)
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‘Joan Didion at a startup’ Rebecca Solnit


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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 Silicon Valley to take up a job at a data analytics startup in San Francisco. Leaving her business casual skirts and shirts in the wardrobe, she began working in company-branded T-shirts. 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 startups 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 forever.

Anna Wiener is a contributing writer to The New Yorker online, where she writes about Silicon Valley, start-up culture, and technology. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, New York, Wired, The New Republic, and n+1, as well as in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017. She lives in San Francisco. Uncanny Valley is her first book.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 234 mm
Gewicht 350 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft Wirtschaft
Mathematik / Informatik Informatik
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Wirtschaftsinformatik
ISBN-10 0-00-831788-7 / 0008317887
ISBN-13 978-0-00-831788-1 / 9780008317881
Zustand Neuware
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