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Burn book : a tech love story / Kara Swisher.
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing-but-fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. 'Burn Book' includes soaring tales of innovation and brilliant entrepreneurs, as well as Silicon Valley's much more complex history of striving, success, and failure. The book details how the commercial internet came into being and how, for all it has given the world, it now sits at the centre of global power, creating a clear and present danger to humanity.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982163891 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2024]
- Copyright: ©2024
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| Subject: | Internet industry > Social aspects. Technology > Social aspects. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Personal narratives. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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From an award-winning journalist comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. Illustrations. - Simon and Schuster
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From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.
âSwisher, the bad-ass journalist and OG chronicler of Silicon Valleyâ¦takes no prisoners in this highly readable look at the evolution of the digital worldâ¦Bawdy, brash, and compulsively thought-provoking, just like its author, Burn Book sizzlesâ (Booklist, starred review).
Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of techâs most powerful players. From âthe queen of all mediaâ (Walt Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal), this is the inside story weâve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world.
When tech titans crowed that they would âmove fast and break things,â Kara Swisher was moving faster and breaking news. While covering the explosion of the digital sector in the early 1990s, she developed a long track record of digging up and reporting the facts about this new world order. Her consistent scoops drove one CEO to accuse her of âlistening in the heating ductsâ and prompted Facebookâs Sheryl Sandberg to once observe: âIt is a constant joke in the Valley when people write memos for them to say, âI hope Kara never sees this.ââ
While still in college, Swisher got her start at The Washington Post, where she became one of the few people in journalism interested in covering the nascent Internet. She went on to work for The Wall Street Journal, joining with Walt Mossberg to start the groundbreaking D: All Things Digital conference, as well as pioneering tech news sites.
Swisher has interviewed everyone who matters in tech over three decades, right when they presided over an explosion of world-changing innovation that has both helped and hurt our world. Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, Bob Iger, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Meg Whitman, Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, and Mark Zuckerberg are just a few whom Swisher made sweatâfiguratively and, in Zuckerbergâs case, literally.
Despite the damage she chronicles, Swisher remains optimistic about techâs potential to help solve problems and not just create them. She calls upon the industry to make better, more thoughtful choices, even as a new set of powerful AI tools are poised to change the world yet again. At its heart, this book is a love story to, for, and about tech from someone who knows it better than anyone.
