This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of W NYC Studios and the New Yorker.

This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick.

Over the last 30 years, tech companies,

the up-starts of the business world back then

became the business world.

Microsoft is rated the most profitable company on the planet by some rankings.

Apple and Alphabet, which owns Google, are way up there as well.

Tech companies have amassed incredible power.

Their impacts on privacy, on mental health, on journalism,

on just about everything.

We're only beginning to understand it now.

One of the sharpest voices on the evolution of the tech industry and often one of the

funniest is the journalist Kara Swisher. She knows better than anyone how the internet came to define so much of our lives.

And since the 90s she's been influential and even feared in Silicon Valley and she's just

published Burn Book, a tech love story.

It begins with Kara Swisher's time at the Washington Post where we first met.

I thought of you immediately some weeks ago when Tom shells the

legendary Washington Post TV critic died and it's. And it's my memory.

It is my memory from a million years ago in the Washington Post Newsroom when I was a child in the

style section.

Am I not crazy that you worked right close to you? I was there. Yes I was I sat right

next to him. I mean she'll had an office next to Mary Hadar and so it was the

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