A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
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In Daub's hands the founding concepts of Silicon Valley don't make
money; they fall apart. --The New York Times Book Review**
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From FSGO x Logic: a Stanford professor's spirited dismantling of
Silicon Valley's intellectual origins**
Adrian Daub's What Tech Calls Thinking is a lively dismantling of the
ideas that form the intellectual bedrock of Silicon Valley. Equally
important to Silicon Valley's world-altering innovation are the language
and ideas it uses to explain and justify itself. And often, those fancy
new ideas are simply old motifs playing dress-up in a hoodie. From the
myth of dropping out to the war cry of "disruption," Daub locates the
Valley's supposedly original, radical thinking in the ideas of Heidegger
and Ayn Rand, the New Age Esalen Foundation in Big Sur, and American
traditions from the tent revival to predestination. Written with verve
and imagination, What Tech Calls Thinking is an intellectual
refutation of Silicon Valley's ethos, pulling back the curtain on the
self-aggrandizing myths the Valley tells about itself.
FSG Originals × Logic dissects the way technology functions in
everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley, for all their utopian
imaginings, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats
to democracy, truth, privacy, and safety, as a result of tech's reckless
pursuit of progress, have shown as much. We present an alternate story,
one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and
innovation, across borders and socioeconomic divisions, from history
through the future, beyond platitudes and PR hype, and past doom and
gloom. Our collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into
the tech industry's many worlds, and aspires to incite fresh
conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible
explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life
today.
