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Abolish Silicon Valley : How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism by Wendy Liu, Wendy Liu is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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**Former insider turned critic Wendy Liu busts the myths of the tech industry, and offers a galvanising argument for why and how we must reclaim technology's potential for the public good.**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.

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Wendy Liu, Wendy Liu
Publisher
Repeater Books
Published
2020
Language
EN
ISBN
9781912248711
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Technology, Science, Engineering
Rating
4.2 / 5 (103 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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