9781620972113_

Included in Backchannels (WIRED.com) Top Tech Books of 2017

An important book on the pervasive influence of Silicon Valley on our economy, culture and politics.
New York Times

How the titans of techs embrace of economic disruption and a rampant libertarian ideology is fracturing America and making it a meaner place

In The Know-It-Alls former New York Times technology columnist Noam Cohen chronicles the rise of Silicon Valley as a political and intellectual force in American life. Beginning nearly a century ago and showcasing the role of Stanford University as the incubator of this new class of super geeks, Cohen shows how smart guys like Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg fell in love with a radically individualistic ideal and then mainstreamed it. With these very rich men leading the way, unions, libraries, public schools, common courtesy, and even government itself have been pushed aside to make way for supposedly efficient market-based encounters via the Internet.

Donald Trumps election victory was an inadvertent triumph of the disruption that Silicon Valley has been pushing: Facebook and Twitter, eager to entertain their users, turned a blind eye to the fake news and the hateful ideas proliferating there. The Rust Belt states that shifted to Trump are the ones being left behind by a meritocratic Silicon Valley ideology that promotes an economy where, in the words of LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, each of us is our own start-up. A society that belittles civility, empathy, and collaboration can easily be led astray. The Know-It-Alls explains how these self-proclaimed geniuses failed this most important test of democracy.

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The debut of a well-known and respected New York Times journalist: Noam Cohen has appeared on Talk of the Nation, MSNBC, and numerous commercial and public radio stations in conjunction with his work on technology for the New York Times. He appeared in the documentary "Page One."

Former New York Times columnist: Cohen covered technology for the New York Times from 2007 to 2015 and continues to contribute op-ed pieces to its opinion pages.

Relevant to post-election conversations: The election of Donald Trump was the occasion for Noam Cohen to write an op-ed essay in the New York Times where he excoriated the role Silicon Valley played. Cohen will continue to monitor the disruptive political, intellectual and cultural role the Valley plays when this book is published.

Blurbs/endorsements: We will be pursuing the likes of Tim Wu, Cathy ONeil, Kara Swisher, Steven Levy, and Cory Doctorow for blurbs.

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Included in Backchannels (WIRED.com) Top Tech Books of 2017

An important book on the pervasive influence of Silicon Valley on our economy, culture and politics.
New York Times

How the titans of techs embrace of economic disruption and a rampant libertarian ideology is fracturing America and making it a meaner place

Donald Trumps election victory was an inadvertent triumph of the "disruption" that Silicon Valley has been pushing: Facebook and Twitter, eager to entertain their users, turned a blind eye to the fake news and the hateful ideas proliferating there. The Rust Belt states that shifted to Trump are the ones being left behind by a "meritocratic" Silicon Valley ideology that promotes an economy where, in the words of LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, each of us is our own start-up. A society that belittles civility, empathy, and collaboration can easily be led astray. The Know-It-Alls explains how these self-proclaimed geniuses failed this most important test of democracy.

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