We all wanted that gang of hipsters and other geeks from Silicon Valley. A group of father's children who announced a new world economic system for the benefit of all and oriented to the welfare society. A dawn of the new technological world with its glorious benefits and its startup as a solution for every problem, from hemorrhoids to conquering space.
But these things always implode to show their poor workmanship from within. And it is not that I am an old curmudgeon (or maybe yes) eager for things to end up falling under their own weight. The thing is, panaceas aside; infallible placebos for all kinds of mental straws; or self-help books with which to become Bill Gates in 7 days, Anna wiener he wanted to tell us almost everything ...
Synopsis
In 2013, at the age of XNUMX, Anna Wiener decides to quit her precarious job as an editorial assistant at a literary agency in New York because of the seductive promises of burgeoning tech startups. An adventure that will lead her to move to San Francisco and sign for a new data analysis company. In the effervescent micro-world of Silicon Valley, you'll rub shoulders with young and enthusiastic entrepreneurs in a feverish race for innovation, wealth and, of course, power.
With singular lucidity, Anna Wiener reveals the dark side of Silicon Valley - the false ideals, the endless days, the alienating corporatism, the endemic misogyny -, and walks the fine line between utopia and dystopia in which technological emporiums that seek to change radically the world but that endanger our societies: from the inexorable control that apps and networks exert over us, to the brutal inequality that has disfigured the identity of its epicenter, the city of San Francisco. An exceptional chronicle, which reads like a novel, about an all-powerful industry and the people who make it up, which has positioned its author as one of the essential voices to decipher this dizzying digital age.
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