具体描述
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.
作者简介
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.
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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...
评分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...
评分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...
评分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...
评分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...
用户评价
A book about how to find a place in the world through a position as a nontech female employee in a strongly male-dominated tech world...and we will wait to see the ending of the story 理工科人士如何吃饭的书｜For me, still a long journey ahead to figure out.
评分因为自己一直在硅谷科技公司工作所以这本书一出就立马看了，但是却很难引起共鸣，更多的是一些作者自我主义和矫情，带着传统主义的偏见和无法适应新改变的高傲，很多故事也是非常personal，不具有代表性
评分年轻人谁不是在找meaning呢？文笔挺好的，但是一看就是东海岸liberal arts college出来的（和new yorker杂志的文风非常一致了）
评分For many millennials, including Anna, the promise of impactful work – and reliable health insurance – from a job in Silicon Valley was too much to resist. But once she became aware of the industry’s darker side and learned to value her skills differently, she was able to leave her high-paying job and find meaning in her work.
评分除了前几年Bad Blood引起的广泛讨论外，硅谷似乎一直是一个以男性为中心的筑梦者的天堂。而以「女性」以及「non-tech」的身份审视硅谷，并穿插着对科技和创投的一些独特看法，读下来也是挺有趣的。文风非常New Yorker，末尾介绍作者为其撰稿，果然lol
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