Anna Wiener is a contributing writer to The New Yorker online, where she writes about Silicon Valley, startup culture, and technology. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, New York, 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.
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 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.
Part coming-of-age-story, part portrait of an already bygone era, Anna Wiener’s memoir, Uncanny Valley, 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.
發表於2024-11-30
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Embodiment of all the overthinking that social sciences/humanities people do Reading it in 2020, before my career unfolds in front of me; can’t stop wondering where I will be in 5 years, will I find fulfillment in work related to artificial intelligence or...
評分Embodiment of all the overthinking that social sciences/humanities people do Reading it in 2020, before my career unfolds in front of me; can’t stop wondering where I will be in 5 years, will I find fulfillment in work related to artificial intelligence or...
評分Embodiment of all the overthinking that social sciences/humanities people do Reading it in 2020, before my career unfolds in front of me; can’t stop wondering where I will be in 5 years, will I find fulfillment in work related to artificial intelligence or...
評分Embodiment of all the overthinking that social sciences/humanities people do Reading it in 2020, before my career unfolds in front of me; can’t stop wondering where I will be in 5 years, will I find fulfillment in work related to artificial intelligence or...
評分Embodiment of all the overthinking that social sciences/humanities people do Reading it in 2020, before my career unfolds in front of me; can’t stop wondering where I will be in 5 years, will I find fulfillment in work related to artificial intelligence or...
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讀完感覺對不少矽榖從業人員進行瞭精準打擊…
評分年輕人誰不是在找meaning呢?文筆挺好的,但是一看就是東海岸liberal arts college齣來的(和new yorker雜誌的文風非常一緻瞭)
評分年輕人誰不是在找meaning呢?文筆挺好的,但是一看就是東海岸liberal arts college齣來的(和new yorker雜誌的文風非常一緻瞭)
評分很真實,一首資料。讓我想Brotopia那本書,也是非常真實大膽地描寫瞭作為女性在矽榖的經曆。
評分除瞭前幾年Bad Blood引起的廣泛討論外,矽榖似乎一直是一個以男性為中心的築夢者的天堂。而以「女性」以及「non-tech」的身份審視矽榖,並穿插著對科技和創投的一些獨特看法,讀下來也是挺有趣的。文風非常New Yorker,末尾介紹作者為其撰稿,果然lol
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