It will come as no surprise to readers of her debut, Uncanny Valley, that Wiener is as quick witted in person as she appears on the page. And I don’t know how politically useful satire about the tech industry is in 2019. In the book, Wiener describes her workplace’s blase, apolitical attitude to God mode: “We didn’t think of ourselves as participating in the surveillance economy. “The tech industry is trying to provide solutions to crises that they didn’t necessarily create, but that they are now exacerbating. “There is currently very little accountability.”• Uncanny Valley: A Memoir is published by HarperCollins (RRP £16.99).

Source: The Guardian January 06, 2020 09:00 UTC