Wiener’s memoir is getting rave and deserved reviews. While Wiener is something of an outsider (someone who likes “long novels with minimalist plot” in a city that wants “a world freed of decision-making, the unnecessary friction of human behavior”), she gets swept up in a Silicon Valley on the brink of taking over the world. She finds herself moving to San Francisco in the middle of the startup boom. When the book starts, Wiener is a “privileged and downwardly mobile” literary agent’s assistant in NYC. But what took us so long?Īnna Wiener’s terrific new memoir, Uncanny Valley, traces one person’s journey through the tech euphoria and subsequent alienation of the last decade. Whether it’s Russian bots hacking our elections or dystopian surveillance programs, in the last few years we seem to have realized that a world governed by inhuman algorithms and Silicon Valley billionaires is maybe not the utopia we were hoping for. We’ve recently woken up to the dangers of our tech-controlled age.
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