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2) The circle
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
When Mae is hired to work for, The Circle, the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey, to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every decision she makes begin to affect the lives and...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. A comedy partially inspired by Mike Judge's own experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late 1980s.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
viii, 708 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
"In Palo Alto, the first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, Malcolm Harris examines how and why Northern California evolved in the particular, consequential way it did, tracing the ideologies, technologies, and policies that have been engineered there over the course of 150 years of Anglo settler colonialism, from IQ tests to the 'tragedy of the commons,' racial genetics, and 'broken windows' theory. The Internet and computers, too....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
[580] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Hired by a dying tech company tycoon to ghostwrite his memoirs, failed novelist Josh Cohen learns the history of the man's profoundly influential company before being initiated into the high-stakes truth behind the autobiography project.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
"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,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xvi, 494 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
A narrative history of the Silicon Valley generation that launched five major high-tech industries in seven years details the specific contributions of seven technical pioneers and how they established the foundation for today's tech-driven world.
"At a time when the five most valuable companies on the planet are high-tech firms and nearly half of Americans say they cannot live without their cell phones, Troublemakers reveals the untold story of...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
482 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author comes the astonishingly frank and intimate story of success and failure inside Silicon Valley's dominant venture capital firms-and how their strategies and fates have shaped the path of innovation, and the global economy, writ large"--
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