Anna Wiener Knihy

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"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 warn 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 has 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 everywhere 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."-- Book jacket

Cosa succede, nella Silicon Valley? Per quale ragione gli spazi di lavoro sono disegnati come appartamenti, e gli appartamenti come spazi di lavoro? In base a quale idea del mondo anche chi hai seduto di fronte comunica con te solo via messaggio? Come mai gli unici scambi diretti fra umani ruotano intorno alle ordinazioni del delivery successivo? E soprattutto, oltre a imporre una vita quotidiana così diversa da tutte le altre, cosa fanno veramente le startup? Accumulano quantità inimmaginabili di dati su ciascuno di noi, e li organizzano secondo strategie sempre più veloci e sofisticate, ma perché? Per vendere, d’accordo. Per sorvegliare, come no. Ma poi? Su domande come queste speculiamo ogni giorno, senza peraltro neppure sapere bne come sia fatta, Silicon Valley, e cosa sia. Anna Wiener ci ha lavorato per cinque anni, e quando ne è uscita ha deciso di scrivere questo straordinario rapporto, che ha assunto quasi da solo la forma di un romanzo. Si ride molto, a leggerlo. Ma si ride sempre, quando si ha paura.