Silicon Valley ideology Concepts

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

by Steven Pinker · 13 Feb 2018 · 1,034pp · 241,773 words

” of the “myth” of the “onward march” of “inevitable progress.” You are a “cheerleader” for “vulgar American can-doism” with the “rah-rah” spirit of “boardroom ideology,” “Silicon Valley,” and the “Chamber of Commerce.” You are a practitioner of “Whig history,” a “naïve optimist,” a “Pollyanna,” and of course a “Pangloss,” a modern-day

The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century

by Rodrigo Aguilera · 10 Mar 2020 · 356pp · 106,161 words

of the progress narrative, but there is another group that finds within itself boundless possibilities for the future: tech bros. The pervasiveness of libertarianism within Silicon Valley has resulted in the ideology having its own subspecies known as technolibertarianism, also called extroprianism. This emerged in the late 1980s through the musings of futurist philosophers

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of a future we should be anticipating with dangerously few reservations. There would also probably not be much fightback from the New Optimist camp if Silicon Valley ideology insidiously becomes more mainstream. The success of Trump and his enablers in mainstreaming their New Right sympathies proves that it only takes one convert reaching

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a position of power to legitimize a belief system. Institutionalizing it then becomes the next logical step. That Silicon Valley’s foundational ideology could form the backbone of a new American narrative is hardly inconceivable. It is an extreme version of the narrative that to a large extent already permeates

What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing

by Ed Finn · 10 Mar 2017 · 285pp · 86,853 words

algorithm offers us salvation, but only after we accept its terms of service. The important lesson here is not merely that the venture capitalism of Silicon Valley is the ideology bankrolling much of our contemporary cathedral-building, or even Bogost’s warning about computation as a new theology. The lesson is that it’s

The Googlization of Everything:

by Siva Vaidhyanathan · 1 Jan 2010 · 281pp · 95,852 words

petri dish from which it sprang, is more than technological or scientiﬁc. As the media historian Fred Turner demonstrates in From Counterculture to Cyberculture, the ideology of Silicon Valley is rooted in the practices and idealistic visions of 1960s counterculture. It’s a peculiar story: cultural anarchism melded with technologies developed for and by

Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation

by Paris Marx · 4 Jul 2022 · 295pp · 81,861 words

-up world. This also forces the question of whether these dockless services should be on sidewalks in the first place, and since that contradicts the ideology of Silicon Valley, many of its adherents naturally chose to see it another way. Micromobility services, as well as the autonomous delivery robots that are also being deployed

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that had been born in the 1970s and 1980s were once again at work; the same ideas that had created the techno-deterministic, free market ideology of Silicon Valley by men who held counter-cultural ideals but used them to justify their participation in the capitalist system. Even as the tech industry became a

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

by Safiya Umoja Noble · 8 Jan 2018 · 290pp · 73,000 words

predicated on gender and race situate women and people of color outside the power systems from which technology arises. This is how colorblind ideology is mechanized in Silicon Valley: through denial of the existence of both racial orders and contributions from non-Whites. This fantasy of postracialism has been well documented by Jessie Daniels

On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

by Nate Silver · 12 Aug 2024 · 848pp · 227,015 words

, progressivism) that are credible and robust enough to deserve some consideration in your moral framework. It is imperative, however, to be wary of totalizing ideologies, whether in the form of utilitarianism, Silicon Valley’s accelerationism, the Village’s identitarianism,[*7] or anything else. In our fast-moving, topsy-turvy world, it’s hard to know

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

by Shoshana Zuboff · 15 Jan 2019 · 918pp · 257,605 words

living labs for the translation of instrumentarian relations to the wider society. Pentland appeared in 2016 at a conference organized by Singularity University, a Silicon Valley hub of instrumentarian ideology funded in part by Larry Page. An interviewer tasked to write about Pentland explains, “Though people are one of the most valuable assets in

To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death

by Mark O'Connell · 28 Feb 2017 · 252pp · 79,452 words

fallen selves. For Thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory. The word “solve,” in this context, seemed to me to encapsulate the Silicon Valley ideology whereby all of life could neatly be divided into problems and solutions—solutions that always took the form of some or other application of technology. Whether the

Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

by Kyle Chayka · 15 Jan 2024 · 321pp · 105,480 words

equitable distribution of culture through the services’ feeds. (A digital platform has none of the curatorial responsibility of, say, an art museum.) According to Silicon Valley ideology, the pursuit of scale far outweighs any negative consequence it might have, as a memo written by Andrew Bosworth, a deputy of Mark Zuckerberg’s at Facebook