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Uncanny Valley - Seduction and Disillusionment in San Francisco’s Startup Scene (Paperback)
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Uncanny Valley - Seduction and Disillusionment in San Francisco’s Startup Scene (Paperback)
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‘Joan Didion at a startup’ Rebecca Solnit ‘Impossibly
pleasurable’ Jia Tolentino ‘This is essential reading’
Stylist At twenty-five years old, Anna Wiener was beginning to tire
of her assistant job in New York publishing. There was no room to
grow, and the voyeuristic thrill of answering someone else’s
phone had worn thin. Within a year she had moved to Silicon Valley
to take up a job at a data analytics startup in San Francisco.
Leaving her business casual skirts and shirts in the wardrobe, she
began working in company-branded T-shirts. She had a healthy income
for the first time in her life. She felt like part of the future.
But a tide was beginning to turn. People were speaking of tech
startups as surveillance companies. Out of sixty employees, only
eight of her colleagues were women. Casual sexism was rife. Sexual
harassment cases were proliferating. And soon, like everyone else,
she was addicted to the internet, refreshing the news, refreshing
social media, scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. Slowly, she
began to realise that her blind faith in ambitious, arrogant young
men from America’s soft suburbs wasn’t just her own personal
pathology. It had become a global affliction. Uncanny Valley is a
coming of age story set against the backdrop of our generation’s
very own gold rush. It’s a story about the tension between old
and new, between art and tech, between the quest for money and the
quest for meaning – about how our world is changing forever.
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