Former insider turned critic Wendy Liu busts the myths of the tech industry, and offers a galvanising argument for why and how we must reclaim technology's potential for the public good.
Wendy Liu is a software engineer and former startup founder who left the tech industry to pursue a masters degree in inequality from the London School of Economics. She is currently working on a print publication devoted to tech worker organising in Silicon Valley.
"Lucid, probing and urgent. Wendy Liu manages to be both optimistic
about the emancipatory potential of tech and scathing about the
industry that has harnessed it for bleak and self-serving ends." --
Naomi Klein, author of On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New
Deal "Astute, accessible, and driven by the author's wealth of
personal insight, Abolish Silicon Valley is a riveting read and a
compelling contribution to contemporary debates. I devoured it in a
single sitting." --Helen Hester, author of Xenofeminism
"Politically-engaged and rigorously self-reflective, Liu calls not
just for the eradication of tech culture as we know it, but for the
radical reinvention of innovation, work, and automation in the name
of the collective interest. This is an assured debut which deserves
to find a wide audience." -- Nick Srnicek, author of Platform
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