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Item specifics
- Condition
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Personalize
- No
- Era
- 2020s
- Signed
- Yes
- Ex Libris
- No
- Personalized
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- No
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- No
- ISBN
- 9781982163891
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1982163895
ISBN-13
9781982163891
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7062278504
Product Key Features
Book Title
Burn Book : a Tech Love Story
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2024
Topic
Industries / Computers & Information Technology, Business Ethics, Personal Memoirs, General, Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades, Popular Culture, Information Technology
Genre
Computers, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Swisher, the bad-ass journalist and OG chronicler of Silicon Valley and its denizens (almost all of them male because, well, tech world), takes no prisoners in this highly readable look at the evolution of the digital world. . . Bawdy, brash, and compulsively thought-provoking, just like its author, Burn Book sizzles." -- BOOKLIST (Starred Review), "The most recognizable chronicler of the digital revolution." -- WASHINGTON POST "Nobody straddles the world of tech and media quite like Kara Swisher... This book isn't just a juicy read, it's also a valuable historical document, giving readers an inside look at the architects of some of the biggest tech moments of the last thirty years." -- Charlotte Alter, TIME "An exposé that also seeks to avert technological calamity on the perilous road still ahead." --ASSOCIATED PRESS "Funny, smart, chic-y, and insightful." --Katie Couric " Burn Book shows how understanding these leaders' pasts can illuminate their current motivations and aspirations." -- AXIOS "The queen of all media." -- Walt Mossberg, former WALL STREET JOURNAL columnist "Swisher has been the most entrepreneurial of reporters, both in the doggedness of her work and the ever-evolving array of venues where it's manifested itself." -- FAST COMPANY "The book is also deeply personal and frankly, very moving." --Samantha Bee "Unlike the mythological Cassandra whose prophecies were ignored, both the 'children' and adults will pay heed to [Kara Swisher's] warnings." -- THE DAILY BEAST "As existential questions confront both the tech and media industries... Swisher takes no prisoners, offering readers a behind-the-curtain peek at the industry's most powerful and ego-obsessed titans." -- RELIABLE SOURCES
Dewey Decimal
338.4760979473
Synopsis
Instant New York Times Bestseller 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. "Swisher, the bad-ass journalist and OG chronicler of Silicon Valley...takes no prisoners in this highly readable look at the evolution of the digital world...Bawdy, brash, and compulsively thought-provoking, just like its author, Burn Book sizzles" ( Booklist , starred review). Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech's most powerful players. From "the queen of all media" (Walt Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal ), this is the inside story we've 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 "move fast and break things," 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 "listening in the heating ducts" and prompted Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg to once observe: "It is a constant joke in the Valley when people write memos for them to say, 'I hope Kara never sees this.'" 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 sweat--figuratively and, in Zuckerberg's case, literally. Despite the damage she chronicles, Swisher remains optimistic about tech's 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.
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