5/10/2023 0 Comments Uncanny valley memoir![]() Money was certainly part of her original decision, but not all. ![]() In her extraordinary new book, “Uncanny Valley,” Anna Wiener recounts what made her, a 25-year-old woman with an “affectedly analog” life in New York City, abandon her job at a literary agency in 2013 to work for tech start-ups, and what eventually - five years later - made her leave the industry. Two decades ago, the novelist and former software engineer Ellen Ullman anticipated that the internet would bring about the “suburbanization of existence” - a libertarian idyll or libertarian hellscape, depending on how you might fare in an increasingly private and privatized world. ![]() The journey from feeling to wanting to procuring used to take deliberation and time now the experience has been squeezed into a seamless moment of scrolling and clicking, without any obligation to interact directly with another human being. ![]() Even at the end of a decade marked by surveillance capitalism and Russian trolls - a period of time when techno-utopianism curdled into disillusion - Silicon Valley has shown itself more than capable of delivering on one of its core promises: a frictionless convenience, at least for those who can afford it. ![]()
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