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Language
English
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"In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener -- stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial -- left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination,...
4) The Circle
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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When Mae is hired to work for the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey, to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every decision she makes begin to affect the lives and future of her...
5) Summer love
Publisher
Crown Media Productions
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When a widowed suburban mom, who's recently gone back to school, takes an internship and enters the fast-paced tech world of millionaire app-trepreneurs, she discovers that although life seems to be a lot more digital, love needs to be a lot more real.
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Series
Dez Limerick novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to the highly praised The Gatekeeper, Dez Limerick, one of the best new thriller heroes returns.
Desmond Aloysius Limerick ("Dez" to his friends and close personal enemies) is a man with a shadowy past, certain useful hard-won skills, and, if one digs deep enough, a reputation as a good man to have at your back. Now retired from his previous life, Dez is just a bloke with a winning smile, a bass guitar, and bullet wounds that paint...
Author
Publisher
Regnery Gateway, an imprint of Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The Age of Google, built on big data and machine intelligence, has been an awesome era. But it's coming to an end. In Life after Google, George Gilder--the peerless visionary of technology and culture--explains why Silicon Valley is suffering a nervous breakdown and what to expect as the post-Google age dawns. Google's astonishing ability to 'search and sort' attracts the entire world to its search engine and countless other goodies--videos, maps,...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
�1999
Language
English
Description
"This is a defining portrait of young people in the whirl of an information revolution and an international gold rush. Masses of entrepreneurs and tech wizards, immigrants and investors, dreamers and visionaries are heading west to seek their fortune and a new destiny."
