{"product_id":"uncanny-valley-a-memoir","title":"Uncanny Valley: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A definitive document of a world in transition: I won't be alone in returning to it for clarity and consolation for many years to come.\" -Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnna 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePart coming-of-age story, part portrait of an already-bygone era, Anna Wiener's memoir 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnsparing and incisive, Uncanny Valley is a cautionary tale, and a revelatory interrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting designers are only beginning to understand.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT-BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54009202671984,"sku":"978-1250785695","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/ebook_5942_20657cdbd1.jpg?v=1783582468","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/products\/uncanny-valley-a-memoir","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}