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DESCRIPTION:For more information about CHPL's Feminist Book Club\, click HERETHIS EVENT IS NOW VIRTUAL ONLY.Click HERE to register on Zoom. \;\n\nThe prescient\, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital ageIn\n her mid-twenties\, at the height of tech industry idealism\, Anna \nWiener—stuck\, broke\, and looking for meaning in her work\, like any good \nmillennial--left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new \ndigital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco\, where she \nlanded at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a\n world of surreal extravagance\, dubious success\, and fresh-faced \nentrepreneurs hell-bent on domination\, glory\, and\, of course\, progress.Anna\n arrived amidst a massive cultural shift\, as the tech industry rapidly \ntransformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. But \namid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies\, boyish \ncamaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty\, a new Silicon Valley began\n to emerge: one in far over its head\, one that enriched itself at the \nexpense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building.Part \ncoming-age-story\, part portrait of an already-bygone era\, Anna Wiener’s \nmemoir is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying\, reckless startup\n culture at a time of unchecked ambition\, unregulated surveillance\, wild\n fortune\, and accelerating political power. With wit\, candor\, and heart\,\n Anna deftly charts the tech industry’s shift from self-appointed world \nsavior to democracy-endangering liability\, alongside a personal \nnarrative of aspiration\, ambivalence\, and disillusionment.Unsparing\n and incisive\, Uncanny Valley is a cautionary tale\, and a revelatory \ninterrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting \ndesigners are only beginning to understand.\nImage URL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.evanced.info/Customer/chplnj/81TIPBV86FL_6341A7C1.JPG
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For more information about CHPL's Feminist Book Club\, click HERE
THIS EVENT IS NOW VIRTUAL ONLY.
Click HERE to register on Zoom. \;
The prescient\, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age
In\n her mid-twenties\, at the height of tech industry idealism\, Anna \nWiener—stuck\, broke\, and looking for meaning in her work\, like any good \nmillennial--left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new \ndigital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco\, where she \nlanded at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a\n world of surreal extravagance\, dubious success\, and fresh-faced \nentrepreneurs hell-bent on domination\, glory\, and\, of course\, progress.
Anna\n arrived amidst a massive cultural shift\, as the tech industry rapidly \ntransformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. But \namid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies\, boyish \ncamaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty\, a new Silicon Valley began\n to emerge: one in far over its head\, one that enriched itself at the \nexpense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building.
Part \ncoming-age-story\, part portrait of an already-bygone era\, Anna Wiener’s \nmemoir is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying\, reckless startup\n culture at a time of unchecked ambition\, unregulated surveillance\, wild\n fortune\, and accelerating political power. With wit\, candor\, and heart\,\n Anna deftly charts the tech industry’s shift from self-appointed world \nsavior to democracy-endangering liability\, alongside a personal \nnarrative of aspiration\, ambivalence\, and disillusionment.
Unsparing\n and incisive\, Uncanny Valley is a cautionary tale\, and a revelatory \ninterrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting \ndesigners are only beginning to understand.
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TITLE:Feminist Book Club: "Uncanny Valley"
SUMMARY:Feminist Book Club: "Uncanny Valley"
LOCATION:Cherry Hill Public Library
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