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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Wendy Liu launches ‘Abolish Silicon Valley’

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Join us to celebrate the launch of Wendy Liu’s ‘Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism’. Discussion followed by book signing.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Former insider turned critic Wendy Liu busts the myths of the tech industry, and offers a galvanizing 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 realize 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 characterize 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. Ultimately, she proposes a more radical way of developing technology, where innovation is conducted for the benefit of society at large, and not merely to enrich a select few.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Wendy Liu is a former startup founder who now writes about the political economy of the tech industry and why tech workers need to unionize.

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Date:

April 15

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07:00 pm - 08:30 pm

Click to Register: https://www.meetup.com/Repeater-Books-Meetup/events/268173421
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

261 Columbus Ave

San Francisco, CA, US, 94133

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Wednesday, April 15th, 2020
07:00 pm to 08:30 pm GMT
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
261 Columbus Ave · San Francisco
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