Uncanny valley a memoir by anna wiener6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Uncanny Valley is a coming of age story set against the backdrop of our generation’s very own gold rush. ![]() 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. And soon, like everyone else, she was addicted to the internet, refreshing the news, refreshing social media, scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. ![]() Sexual harassment cases were proliferating. Out of 60 employees, only 8 of her colleagues were women. People were speaking of tech start-ups as surveillance companies. She felt like part of the future.īut a tide was beginning to turn. She had a healthy income for the first time in her life. ![]() Leaving her business-casual skirts and shirts in the wardrobe, she began working in company-branded T-shirts and hoodies. Within a year she had moved to San Francisco to take up a job at a data analytics start-up in Silicon Valley. There was no room to grow, and the voyeuristic thrill of answering someone else’s phone had worn thin. The prescient account of a journey into Silicon Valley: a defining memoir for our digital age.Īt 25 years old, Anna Wiener was beginning to tire of her assistant job in New York publishing. ![]()
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