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What Tech Calls Thinking - An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (Paperback)
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What Tech Calls Thinking - An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (Paperback)
Series: FSG Originals x Logic
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Adrian Daub’s What Tech Calls Thinking is a lively dismantling of
the ideas that form the intellectual bedrock of Silicon Valley.
Equally important to Silicon Valley’s world-altering innovation
are the language and ideas it uses to explain and justify itself.
And often, those fancy new ideas are simply old motifs playing
dress-up in a hoodie. From the myth of dropping out to the war cry
of “disruption,” Daub locates the Valley’s supposedly
original, radical thinking in the ideas of Heidegger and Ayn Rand,
the New Age Esalen Foundation in Big Sur, and American traditions
from the tent revival to predestination. Written with verve and
imagination, What Tech Calls Thinking is an intellectual refutation
of Silicon Valley's ethos, pulling back the curtain on the
self-aggrandizing myths the Valley tells about itself. FSG
Originals × Logic dissects the way technology functions in
everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley, for all their utopian
imaginings, never really had our best interests at heart: recent
threats to democracy, truth, privacy, and safety, as a result of
tech’s reckless pursuit of progress, have shown as much. We
present an alternate story, one that delights in capturing
technology in all its contradictions and innovation, across borders
and socioeconomic divisions, from history through the future,
beyond platitudes and PR hype, and past doom and gloom. Our
collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the
tech industry’s many worlds, and aspires to incite fresh
conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible
explorations of the emerging tools that reorganise and redefine
life today.
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