Book Club: ‘Uncanny Valley’
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Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
We get help from longtime tech journalist Kara Swisher to dissect Anna Wiener's 'Uncanny Valley,' a fish-out-of-water memoir about a young woman who abandons New York’s publishing industry in favor of big tech and Silicon Valley.
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| 0:13.6 | From W be easy Chicago, this is Nurdette. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm Greta Johnson and you're listening to the Nurdett Book Club each month we read a different book and talk about it. |
| 0:25.4 | It's just like a normal book club except you don't have to share the amazing treats you made and if you didn't do the |
| 0:31.0 | reading that's totally cool you can still hang out. |
| 0:34.0 | So today we're talking about Uncanny Valley. |
| 0:36.2 | It's a memoir by Anna Wiener. |
| 0:37.7 | It's about Silicon Valley and the tech industry. |
| 0:40.2 | Our panelists are Karis Swisher, a tech journalist journalist and host of the Recode Decode podcast. |
| 0:45.1 | Kara, you have been covering the internet like before the internet existed, right? |
| 0:49.1 | Yes. |
| 0:50.1 | Since Al Gore invented it, yes, in fact. |
| 0:51.9 | And in fact he did. He was important part of the legislation that |
| 0:54.3 | created the modern internet or the commercial internet. |
| 0:56.3 | Oh, well there you go. Yeah, I've been covering it since the 19, early 1990s, first at the Washington Post, and then I wrote a book and then came here to |
| 1:05.4 | San Francisco in the mid 90s. That is awesome and Tricia Bobita |
| 1:09.3 | nerd at co-host Emeritus hey Tricia. Hello! |
| 1:12.8 | And of course we're going to be hearing from some of you as well. |
| 1:15.0 | We got a lot of really great listener voicemails and comments |
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