The story’s falling action offers partial resolution in the Epilogue, as a disillusioned Wiener decides to leave not only her company but the industry behind. Her story ends in a muted, ironic anticlimax as she scrolls through hopeful social media posts as the polls close on Election Night. Uncanny Valley is a dystopian novel set in the future where robots perform most human jobs. Concerned about the upcoming presidential election, Wiener travels to Nevada to canvass for Hillary Clinton. She is energetic, funny, and swift while telling the story of Anna Wieners acculturation from book publishing in Manhattan to the dot-com boom in San. Preparing for an acquisition, the environment at work becomes more rigid and profit-oriented for every effort towards social change, justice, and equity, Wiener finds evidence of persistent inequity and exploitation. When Anna Wiener was a 20-something, she left her job at a literary agency in New York and moved to California to join the high-tech world of 'inflection points.

Genres NonfictionMemoirBiographyTechnologyAudiobookBusinessBiography Memoir.more. Through social media she befriends a well-known CEO named Patrick, who acts as a foil and debate partner as she grapples with questions of the industry’s social responsibility and growing political power. Unsparing and incisive, Uncanny Valley is a cautionary tale, and a revelatory interrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting designers are only beginning to understand.

As she acclimates, the company confronts issues of discrimination and struggles to control widespread abuse of its platform. ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMESS 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2020. “Scale,” the second part, charts Wiener’s disenchantment with the industry. Description About the Book Book Synopsis A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.

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