Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
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Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
In her mid-20s, 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 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.
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
- Publication Date: January 5, 2021
- Genres: Memoir, Nonfiction
- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Picador
- ISBN-10: 1250785693
- ISBN-13: 9781250785695