Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
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- Author：Kara Swisher
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Summary
7 hours， 40 minutes
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty， scathing， but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead。
Part memoir， part history， Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players。 This is the inside story we’ve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world。
When tech titans crowed that they would “move fast and break things，” Kara Swisher was moving faster and breaking news。 While covering the explosion of the digital sector in the early 1990s， she developed a long track record of digging up and reporting the facts about this new world order。 Her consistent scoops drove one CEO to accuse her of “listening in the heating ducts” and prompted Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg to once observe: “It is a constant joke in the Valley when people write memos for them to say， ‘I hope Kara never sees this。’”
While still in college， Swisher got her start at The Washington Post， where she became one of the few people in journalism interested in covering the nascent Internet。 She went on to work for The Wall Street Journal， joining with Walt Mossberg to start the groundbreaking D: All Things Digital conference， as well as pioneering tech news sites。
Swisher has interviewed everyone who matters in tech over three decades， right when they presided over an explosion of world-changing innovation that has both helped and hurt our world。 Steve Jobs， Jeff Bezos， Elon Musk， Bill Gates， Sheryl Sandberg， Bob Iger， Larry Page and Sergey Brin， Meg Whitman， Peter Thiel， Sam Altman， and Mark Zuckerberg are just a few whom Swisher made sweat—figuratively and， in Zuckerberg’s case， literally。
Despite the damage she chronicles， Swisher remains optimistic about tech’s potential to help solve problems and not just create them。 She calls upon the industry to make better， more thoughtful choices， even as a new set of powerful AI tools are poised to change the world yet again。 At its heart， this book is a love story to， for， and about tech from someone who knows it better than anyone。
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty， scathing， but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead。
Part memoir， part history， Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players。 This is the inside story we’ve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world。
When tech titans crowed that they would “move fast and break things，” Kara Swisher was moving faster and breaking news。 While covering the explosion of the digital sector in the early 1990s， she developed a long track record of digging up and reporting the facts about this new world order。 Her consistent scoops drove one CEO to accuse her of “listening in the heating ducts” and prompted Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg to once observe: “It is a constant joke in the Valley when people write memos for them to say， ‘I hope Kara never sees this。’”
While still in college， Swisher got her start at The Washington Post， where she became one of the few people in journalism interested in covering the nascent Internet。 She went on to work for The Wall Street Journal， joining with Walt Mossberg to start the groundbreaking D: All Things Digital conference， as well as pioneering tech news sites。
Swisher has interviewed everyone who matters in tech over three decades， right when they presided over an explosion of world-changing innovation that has both helped and hurt our world。 Steve Jobs， Jeff Bezos， Elon Musk， Bill Gates， Sheryl Sandberg， Bob Iger， Larry Page and Sergey Brin， Meg Whitman， Peter Thiel， Sam Altman， and Mark Zuckerberg are just a few whom Swisher made sweat—figuratively and， in Zuckerberg’s case， literally。
Despite the damage she chronicles， Swisher remains optimistic about tech’s potential to help solve problems and not just create them。 She calls upon the industry to make better， more thoughtful choices， even as a new set of powerful AI tools are poised to change the world yet again。 At its heart， this book is a love story to， for， and about tech from someone who knows it better than anyone。
Reviews
Mark Mathes
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Big Tech has devoured competitors， displayed arrogance to its users and regulators， amassed obscene profits and personal fortunes and continues to weaken American democracy。 Author Swisher has been in the front row reporting and commenting on the people and services since the dawn the internet。 This book calls out those who lack character and backbone like Musk and Brin and Zuckerberg to make decisions about the enormous impact of social media and technology on our society。 Are they media compan Big Tech has devoured competitors， displayed arrogance to its users and regulators， amassed obscene profits and personal fortunes and continues to weaken American democracy。 Author Swisher has been in the front row reporting and commenting on the people and services since the dawn the internet。 This book calls out those who lack character and backbone like Musk and Brin and Zuckerberg to make decisions about the enormous impact of social media and technology on our society。 Are they media companies， with free speech and responsibility？ Or utilities like cable and power who don’t have to worry about editing， fairness and civic responsibility？ They want it both ways。 This is the latest warning about how social media leaders have ignored how Russia， China and third world dictators have employed propaganda to affect American elections and our way of life。 Add AI to theater list that tech moguls lack guard rails。 。。。more
E。R。 R Burgess
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The greatest technology reporter of the age adds to her legacy with a thoughtful， funny， and essential review of some of the highlights of her years dissecting Silicon Valley lunacy for us。 For fans of her work （including me for sure）， we get a greatest hits book with her additional acerbic content as she dresses down the powerful and calls out the insanity that reigns supreme among the Tech Bros。 Somehow， she's tougher than any of them。 More importantly， she enables the rest of us to better und The greatest technology reporter of the age adds to her legacy with a thoughtful， funny， and essential review of some of the highlights of her years dissecting Silicon Valley lunacy for us。 For fans of her work （including me for sure）， we get a greatest hits book with her additional acerbic content as she dresses down the powerful and calls out the insanity that reigns supreme among the Tech Bros。 Somehow， she's tougher than any of them。 More importantly， she enables the rest of us to better understand the where tech is going and what it means because it affected our whole lives now more than ever before。 。。。more
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