![]() All the while, Wiener observed an industry and a city that were rapidly changing to meet the whims of the young, moneyed elites who were taking over. She then moved to an open-source startup, eventually transferring into a role that had her dealing with the death threats and far-right propaganda. Although the e-book job didn’t last long, Wiener, with the support of her former bosses, leveraged her brief time in tech into a customer support role at an analytics startup in San Francisco. Wiener was working as an assistant in the publishing industry in her mid-twenties when she was offered a job at a fledgling e-book startup. ![]() In her new memoir titled after the concept, Anna Wiener offers an insider’s view of the tech industry-a field that’s also overly familiar and deeply off-putting. First coined by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Moti in 1970, the term “uncanny valley” refers to the ways in which something that’s just shy of humanoid makes us feel uncomfortable. ![]()
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