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"In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener -- stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial -- left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination, glory, and, of course, progress. Anna arrived amidst a massive cultural shift, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty, a new Silicon Valley began to emerge: one in far over its head, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building. Part coming-age-story, part portrait of an already-bygone era, Anna Wiener's memoir is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition, unregulated surveillance, wild fortune, and accelerating political power. With wit, candor, and heart, Anna deftly charts the tech industry's shift from self-appointed world savior to democracy-endangering liability, alongside a personal narrative of aspiration, ambivalence, and disillusionment. Unsparing and incisive, Uncanny Valley is a cautionary tale, and a revelatory interrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting designers are only beginning to understand."-- Dust jacket

"In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener -- stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial -- left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination, glory, and, of course, progress. Anna arrived amidst a massive cultural shift, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty, a new Silicon Valley began to emerge: one in far over its head, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building. Part coming-age-story, part portrait of an already-bygone era, Anna Wiener's memoir is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition, unregulated surveillance, wild fortune, and accelerating political power. With wit, candor, and heart, Anna deftly charts the tech industry’s shift from self-appointed world savior to democracy-endangering liability, alongside a personal narrative of aspiration, ambivalence, and disillusionment. Unsparing and incisive, Uncanny Valley is a cautionary tale, and a revelatory interrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting designers are only beginning to understand."-- Provided by publisher

• Prologue: Back to the future--the ride
• Don't steal this book
• Google's system of the world
• Google's roots and religions
• End of the free world
• Ten laws of the cryptocosm
• Google's datacenter coup
• Dally's parallel paradigm
• Markov and Midas
• Life 3.0
• 1517
• The heist
• Finding Satoshi
• Battle of the blockchains
• Blockstack
• Taking back the net
• Brave return of Brendan Eich
• Yuanfen
• The rise of sky computing
• A global insurrection
• Neutering the network
• The empire strikes back
• The Bitcoin flaw
• The great unbundling
• Epilogue: The new system of the world.

"Google's algorithms assume the world's future is nothing more than the next moment in a random process. George Gilder shows how deep this assumption goes, what motivates people to make it, and why it's wrong: the future depends on human action." -- Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies and author of Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future "If you want to be clued in to the unfolding future, then you have come to the right place. For decades, George Gilder has been the undisputed oracle of technology's future. Are giant companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook the unstoppable monopolistic juggernauts that they seem, or are they dysfunctional giants about to be toppled by tech-savvy, entrepreneurial college dropouts?" -- Nick Tredennick, Ph.D., Chief Scientist, QuickSilver Technology The Age of Google, built on big data and machine intelligence, has been an awesome era. But it's coming to an end. In Life after Google, George Gilder--the peerless visionary of technology and culture--explains why Silicon Valley is suffering a nervous breakdown and what to expect as the post-Google age dawns. Google's astonishing ability to "search and sort" attracts the entire world to its search engine and countless other goodies--videos, maps, email, calendars....And everything it offers is free, or so it seems. Instead of paying directly, users submit to advertising. The system of "aggregate and advertise" works--for a while--if you control an empire of data centers, but a market without prices strangles entrepreneurship and turns the Internet into a wasteland of ads. The crisis is not just economic. Even as advances in artificial intelligence induce delusions of omnipotence and transcendence, Silicon Valley has pretty much given up on security. The Internet firewalls supposedly protecting all those passwords and personal information have proved hopelessly permeable. The crisis cannot be solved within the current computer and network architecture. The future lies with the "cryptocosm"--the new architecture of the blockchain and its derivatives. Enabling cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ether, NEO and Hashgraph, it will provide the Internet a secure global payments system, ending the aggregate-and-advertise Age of Google. Silicon Valley, long dominated by a few giants, faces a "great unbundling, " which will disperse computer power and commerce and transform the economy and the Internet. Life after Google is almost here. For fans of "Wealth and Poverty, " "Knowledge and Power, " and "The Scandal of Money.".
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• Foreword. Acknowledgement. Introduction.
• PART 1: SANTA CLARA VALLEY.
• Chapter 1: Snow Tracks.
• Chapter 2: The Mission Bell's Toll.
• Chapter 3: The Soul of the 'HP Way'.
• PART 2: SILICON VALLEY.
• Chapter 1: Microprocessor: First 25 Years.
• Chapter 2: IPO Day.
• Chapter 3: Bob Noyce: Inventor, Entrepreneur, Statesman.
• Chapter 4: Silicon Suburbia.
• chapter 5: The Macintosh Introduction.
• PART 3: SILICON TOWN.
• Chapter 1: The Real Secrets of Silicon Valley.
• Chapter 2: Going Underground in Silicon Valley.
• Chapter 3: Day of the Jackal.
• Chapter 4: A Good Day to Contemplate the Rest of Life.
• Chapter 5: Has Silicon Valley Gone Pussy.
• Chapter 6: Seduction--From the Bitch Goddess, A Novel.
• Chapter 7: Technofacism.
• PART 4: SILICON WORLD.
• Chapter 1: The Frontier of the Heart.
• Chapter 2: Notes from a Distant Node.
• Chapter 3: Bandon Beach.
• Chapter 4: Pressing Their Cases Coast to Coast.
• Chapter 5: Children of the (Once) Future.
• Chapter 6: The Gildered Age.
• PART 5: SILICON HOME.
• Chapter 1: The Packard Way.
• Chapter 2: Pixies Last Lesson.
• Chapter 3: Second Sight. Authors' Biography.
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The history of the heart of the high-tech world Mike Malone is a journalist who has covered Silicon Valley for nearly twenty years. This book combines the best of his work from a variety of renowned publications to offer a true-to-life glimpse of the world's most important industrial community. These stories form a picture of a place at the center of cultural, economic, and technological advancement and the people who live there, from dot.com millionaires to everyday working people just trying to get by. Not confined to its present technological significance, the book looks at the rich history of the Valley and the future that awaits it. Meticulously researched and broad in scope, The Valley of Heart's Delight is the definitive biography of a place of massive cultural and political significance. Michael S. Malone (Palo Alta, CA) joined the San Jose Mercury News in 1980 as the nation's first daily high-tech reporter. His writings on Silicon Valley earned him two Pulitzer Prize nominations. He has also written for the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Dallas Morning News, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. He is currently the Editor at Large for ASAP.
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New data reveal tech's direct impact not only on its engineering workforce, but on the broader problems of inequality and working poverty in the region that so many tech superpowers call home. In one of the most diverse regions of the nation, the lack of diversity in the tech's highly-paid workforce is striking.

• Chapter 1 The Asian Century and the Rise of Globalization and Transnationalism
• Chapter 2 The Nature of the Chinese in Silicon Valley: An Ethnic Community of High-Tech
• Chapter 3 Globalization and Social Networks in the Silicon Valley Chinese Community
• Chapter 4 Establishing Roots in America
• Chapter 5 Globalization and Social Differences in the Community
• Chapter 6 The Social Costs and Benefits of Globalization: Family Life and Social Adjustments
• Chapter 7 Globalization and Ethnic Identity: How Does Globalization Affect the Identity of the Chinese in Silicon Valley?
• Chapter 8 Conclusions: Globalization, Citizenship, Social Networks, and Identity.
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The Chinese in Silicon Valley examines the complex and ever-growing role of Chinese American scientists and engineers in Silicon Valley. Globalization brings workers from many different countries and cultures together, impacting more than just their work environments. The Chinese who settle in Silicon Valley must learn to prosper despite changes in cultural identity, family life, and often citizenship. They learn how to utilize new social networks and make sense of a shifting ethnic identity. This informative book presents important new knowledge on the connection between Chinese ethnicity and highly-skilled labor and entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. Secondary statistical data combined with primary personal interview data makes this a detailed and interesting study of globalization, social networks, and ethnic identity.
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• Chapter 1 The Asian Century and the Rise of Globalization and Transnationalism
• Chapter 2 The Nature of the Chinese in Silicon Valley: An Ethnic Community of High-Tech
• Chapter 3 Globalization and Social Networks in the Silicon Valley Chinese Community
• Chapter 4 Establishing Roots in America
• Chapter 5 Globalization and Social Differences in the Community
• Chapter 6 The Social Costs and Benefits of Globalization: Family Life and Social Adjustments
• Chapter 7 Globalization and Ethnic Identity: How Does Globalization Affect the Identity of the Chinese in Silicon Valley?
• Chapter 8 Conclusions: Globalization, Citizenship, Social Networks, and Identity.
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The Chinese in Silicon Valley examines the complex and ever-growing role of Chinese American scientists and engineers in Silicon Valley. Globalization brings workers from many different countries and cultures together, impacting more than just their work environments. The Chinese who settle in Silicon Valley must learn to prosper despite changes in cultural identity, family life, and often citizenship. They learn how to utilize new social networks and make sense of a shifting ethnic identity. This informative book presents important new knowledge on the connection between Chinese ethnicity and highly-skilled labor and entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. Secondary statistical data combined with primary personal interview data makes this a detailed and interesting study of globalization, social networks, and ethnic identity.
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The Real Story of Informix Software and Phil White chronicles the meteoric rise of Informix Software, how it became a billion-dollar software giant, and the scandal that ultimately led to its spectacular fall. This fascinating behind-the-scenes book offers an insider'ss perspective on the business strategies that succeeded, the products that failed, and how a technology industry titan ended up in jail.
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• Prologue : who is Carver Mead?
• Delbrück bursts in
• The fourth camera
• Merrill's view
• The charged competition
• Annealing neurons
• FF
• Beyond the silicon gate
• Tobermory
• The Hopfield net
• Carverland
• Michelle
• Misha
• Synaptics
• The analog perplex
• Seizing the sword
• The cat
• Teleology at Oxford
• White rabbit
• Merrill's magic
• Lyon's den of many colors
• Photokina 2000 and beyond
• Foveon's disruptive challenge
• Holy kammoli!
• Foveon raw in Vegas
• Epilogue : camera's end.

Thanks to the digital technology revolution, cameras are everywhere-PDAs, mobile phones, anywhere you can put an imaging chip and a lens. Battling to usurp the market is a Silicon Valley company, Foveon, whose technology not only produces a superior image but also may become the eye in artificially intelligent machines. Behind Foveon are two legendary figures who made the personal computer possible: Carver Mead of Caltech, one of the founding fathers of information technology, and Federico Faggin, inventor of the CPU-the chip that runs every computer. George Gilder has an insider's knowledge of Silicon Valley and the unpredictable mix of genius, drive and luck that can turn a start-up company into a world leader. The Silicon Eye focuses on some of the brightest-and most colourful-people on earth and their race to transform an industry.
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