The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (703 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MZG458R |
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| Number of Pages | : | 411 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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A society that belittles civility, empathy, and collaboration can easily be led astray. With these very rich men leading the way, unions, libraries, public schools, common courtesy, and even government itself have been pushed aside to make way for supposedly efficient market-based encounters via the Internet.Donald Trump’s election victory was an inadvertent triumph of the "disruption" that Silicon Valley has been pushing: Facebook and Twitter, eager to entertain their users, turned a blind eye to the fake news and the hateful ideas proliferating there. Beginning nearly a century ago and showcasing the role of Stanford University as the incubator of this new class of super geeks, Cohen shows how smart guys like Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg fell in love with a radically individualistic ideal and then mainstreamed it. The Know-It-Alls explains how these self-proclaimed geniuses failed this most important test of democracy. The Rust Belt states that shifted to Trump are the ones being left behind by a "meritocratic" Silicon Valley ideology that promotes an economy where, in the words of LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, each of us is our own start-up. . In The Know-It-Alls former New York Times technology columnist Noam Cohen chronicles the rise of Silicon Valley as a politic
This is his first book.. Noam Cohen covered the influence of the Internet on the larger culture for the New York Times, where he wrote the Link by Link column, beginning in 2007. He lives in Brooklyn with his family
About the AuthorNoam Cohen covered the influence of the Internet on the larger culture for the New York Times, where he wrote the Link by Link column, beginning in 2007. This is his first book.. He lives in Brooklyn with his family