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A David and Goliath story about Ireland’s role as prime real
estate for the world’s largest tech multinationals, and the
considerable impact it has had on us as individuals. At the start
of the millennium, the Tech giants landed on Ireland’s shores.
Dublin, once one of Europe’s poorest cities, became a beacon of
Silicon Valley’s promise of progress and power. As the face of
the capital was remade in the image of Big Tech, Irish society
embraced technology like no other. Romantic Ireland was dead and
gone: social media was here to stay. In this provocative account,
Aoife Barry explores the human cost of Ireland’s Faustian pact
with Big Tech, from the local communities uprooted by Google to the
traumatised moderators squirrelled in the capital’s pockets,
keeping the internet safe at a terrible price. Unsettling,
insightful, and wryly funny, she paints a portrait of a country
addicted to the internet, refreshing the news, refreshing Twitter,
scrolling and scrolling towards a feverish future. She turns an
equally honest eye on her own life online, from her humble
beginnings using dial-up in her parent’s kitchen to working for
Ireland’s first digital-only newsroom, and asks what we bargain
in exchange for life in the metaverse. Social Capital is the coming
of age story of Ireland 3.0: set against the backdrop of the tech
revolution, it chronicles how we collapse the boundary between
physical and virtual reality, and where we might go from here.
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