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100 1  Liu, Wendy,|eauthor. 
245 10 Abolish Silicon Valley :|bhow to liberate technology from 
       capitalism /|cWendy Liu. 
264  1 London :|bRepeater,|c[2020] 
264  4 |c©2020. 
300    236 pages ;|c20 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0  Machine generated contents note: One.No Girls on the 
       Internet -- Two.Googleyness -- Three.More than the Money -
       - Four.Fake It Till You Make It -- Five.Accelerate -- 
       Six.Crash -- Seven.Pivot -- Eight.Giving Up -- 
       Nine.Profile Before You Optimise -- Ten.Stupid Environment
       -- Eleven.A New Industrial Model -- 1.Reclaiming 
       Entrepreneurship -- 2.Reclaiming Work -- 3.Reclaiming 
       Public Services -- 4.Reclaiming Intellectual Property -- 
       5.Reclaiming Culture -- Twelve.Epilogue. 
520    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 realise 
       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 characterise 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. 
650  0 Technology|xSocial aspects. 
650  0 Technology|xSocial aspects|zUnited States. 
650  0 Technology|xMoral and ethical aspects. 
650  0 Business ethics|zUnited States. 
650  0 Capitalism. 
650  0 Technology and civilization. 
650  7 Business ethics.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00842675 
650  7 Capitalism.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00846425 
650  7 Economic history.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00901974 
650  7 Technology and civilization.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01145253 
650  7 Technology|xMoral and ethical aspects.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01145164 
650  7 Technology|xSocial aspects.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01145202 
651  0 Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)|xEconomic 
       conditions. 
651  7 California|zSanta Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01316612 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
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