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Publication Name
Abolish Silicon Valley
Title
Abolish Silicon Valley
Subtitle
How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
EAN
9781912248704
ISBN
9781912248704
Release Date
01/04/2020
Release Year
2020
Country/Region of Manufacture
GB
Book Title
Abolish Silicon Valley : How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
Item Length
7.7in
Publisher
Watkins Media The Limited
Publication Year
2020
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.8in
Author
Wendy Liu
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, Political Science
Topic
Social Aspects, History & Theory, Science & Technology
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
8.3 Oz
Number of Pages
244 Pages

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Innovation. Meritocracy. The possibility of overnight success. What's not to love about Silicon Valley? These days, it's hard to be unambiguously optimistic about the growth-at-all-costs ethos of the tech industry. Public opinion is souring in the wake of revelations about Cambridge Analytica, Theranos, and the workplace conditions of Amazon warehouse workers or Uber. We're starting to see the cracks in the edifice, as we realise that the wealth that the tech industry is so good at creating is neither sustainable nor always desirable. Abolish Silicon Valley is both a heartfelt personal story about the wasteful inequality and unsubstantiated lies of Silicon Valley, and a rallying call to engage in the radical politics needed to upend the status quo. Going beyond the idiosyncrasies of the individual founders and companies that characterise the industry today, Liu delves into the structural factors of the economy that led to Silicon Valley in its current form, and links them to the economy at large. Ultimately, she proposes a more radical way of developing technology, where innovation is conducted for the benefit of society at large, and not merely to enrich a select few.

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Publisher
Watkins Media The Limited
ISBN-10
1912248700
ISBN-13
9781912248704
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4038391135

Product Key Features

Book Title
Abolish Silicon Valley : How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
Author
Wendy Liu
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Social Aspects, History & Theory, Science & Technology
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, Political Science
Number of Pages
244 Pages

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Item Length
7.7in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
8.3 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
T14.5.L5 2020
Reviews
"Lucid, probing and urgent. Wendy Liu manages to be both optimistic about the emancipatory potential of tech and scathing about the industry that has harnessed it for bleak and self-serving ends." -- Naomi Klein , author of On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal "Astute, accessible, and driven by the author's wealth of personal insight, Abolish Silicon Valley is a riveting read and a compelling contribution to contemporary debates. I devoured it in a single sitting." -- Helen Hester , author of Xenofeminism "Politically-engaged and rigorously self-reflective, Liu calls not just for the eradication of tech culture as we know it, but for the radical reinvention of innovation, work, and automation in the name of the collective interest. This is an assured debut which deserves to find a wide audience." -- Nick Srnicek, author of Platform Capitalism
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
303.4834
Dewey Edition
23

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