What You’ll Discover in Noam Cohen The Get to Know-It-All The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball
Noam Cohen – The Get to Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball
Included in Backchannel’s (WIRED.com) “Top Tech Books of 2017”
An “important” Book on the “pervasive influence of Silicon Valley on our economy, culture and politics.”
—New York Times
How the titans of tech’s embrace of Economic disruption and a America is being fractured by rampant libertarian ideology and Making it a It is a more tranquil place
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In The Get to Know-It-Alls former New York Times technology columnist Noam Cohen The rise of chronicles of Silicon Valley as a Political and American life is dominated by the intellectual. It all began almost a Jahrhunderts ago and Highlighting the role of Stanford University as The incubator of This is the new class of super geeks, Cohen This shows how smart men such as Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Jeff Bezos are. and Mark Zuckerberg fell for his girlfriend a A radical individualist ideal and It was then integrated. These very wealthy men led the way in unions, libraries and public schools. Common courtesy was also promoted by them. and Even the government was pushed aside in order to create a market that is supposedly efficient-Online dating for based relationships
Donald Trump’s election victory was an inadvertent triumph of The “disruption” That Silicon Valley Facebook is pushing the buttons and Twitter, eager for their users to have fun, has taken the initiative to turn a Blind eye to fake news and There are many hateful ideas. The Trump has shifted Rust Belt states to his advantage. a “meritocratic” Silicon Valley Ideology that promotes an economic system where, in the words of of Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn founder, each of We are our own start-up. A society that devalues empathy and civility and It is easy to lead collaboration astray. The Get to Know-It-Alls explains the process.-Proclaimed geniuses failed to pass this crucial test of democracy.
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Praise for The Get to Know-It-Alls:
Included in Backchannel’s (WIRED.com) “Top Tech Books of 2017”
An “important” Book on the “pervasive influence of Silicon Valley on our economy, culture and politics.”
—New York Times
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“A valuable addition to the growing body of literature that’s trying to explain how a culture of under-socialized wunderkind CEOs drove tech’s future into a ditch.”
—Backchannel (WIRED.com)
“An unabashed critique of the values of Silicon Valley start-ups that increasingly control our lives online.”
—Library Journal
“The Know-It-Alls examines highly influential figures such as the often-neglected computer pioneers John McCarthy and Frederick Terman, who helped to transform Stanford, California, and its valley into a digital powerhouse ― McCarthy as the father of artificial intelligence, Terman as a catalyst for local entrepreneurialism. These finely researched portraits are a joy.”
—Nature Magazine
“[Cohen] shows how the cult of personality for tech entrepreneurs developed out of a ‘combination of a hacker’s arrogance and an entrepreneur’s greed’ and . . . helps chip away at the power these men (another crucial quality) have carved out for themselves. . . . An enlightening breakdown of how Silicon Valley billionaires have shifted popular discourse in their favor.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Individualism is a big part of what makes America great—until it becomes a euphemism for selfishness and arrogance among lucky winners who prefer to believe that luck and other people had nothing to do with their success. The Know-It-Alls is a terrific case study of some of the unreckoned costs of the digital revolution, and how one piece of the American idea threatens to overwhelm the others.”
—Kurt Andersen, author of Fantasyland – How America Went Haywire and Host of Studio 360 from NPR
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“Why is the Internet the way it is? How has commerce come to dominate the scramble for clicks and eyeballs? What kind of people, essentially all of them young men―brainy, ambitious, focused, very young young men―created cyberspace? Via the careers of a dozen of them, Noam Cohen tells the story in this entertaining, refreshingly unworshipful survey.”
—Hendrik Hertzberg, author of Politics: Observations & Arguments and ¡Obamanos!
“A fascinating intellectual profile of the people who have increasingly come to rule our world. With precision and skill, Noam Cohen tweaks the pretensions of a handful of tech oligarchs, whose self-styled project to better our lives results in little more than a power grab at our economy and our democracy. . . . I’ll be turning to Cohen’s insights into the profiteers responsible again and again.”
—David Dayen, author of Chain of Title
“A provocative and illuminating examination of Silicon Valley. Using profiles of its core digital capitalist giants and the immense political, economic and cultural power they have quickly come to possess, Cohen raises troubling questions about how this can possibly square with a fair, decent, humane, and democratic society. This immensely readable book should be mandatory reading.”
—Robert W. McChesney, author of Digital Disconnect
About the Author
Noam Cohen Covered the influence of The Internet and larger culture, New York Times. He started the Link by Link column in 2007. He lives in Brooklyn, with his family. This is his debut book.
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