The Know-It-Alls
The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball
Published on 7. November 2017
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-62097-210-6 (ISBN)
Description
The debut of a well-known and respected New York Times journalist: Noam Cohen has appeared on Talk of the Nation, MSNBC, and numerous commercial and public radio stations in conjunction with his work on technology for the New York Times. He appeared in the documentary "Page One."
Former New York Times columnist: Cohen covered technology for the New York Times from 2007 to 2015 and continues to contribute op-ed pieces to its opinion pages.
Relevant to post-election conversations: The election of Donald Trump was the occasion for Noam Cohen to write an op-ed essay in the New York Times where he excoriated the role Silicon Valley played. Cohen will continue to monitor the disruptive political, intellectual and cultural role the Valley plays when this book is published.
Blurbs/endorsements: We will be pursuing the likes of Tim Wu, Cathy O'Neil, Kara Swisher, Steven Levy, and Cory Doctorow for blurbs.
Former New York Times columnist: Cohen covered technology for the New York Times from 2007 to 2015 and continues to contribute op-ed pieces to its opinion pages.
Relevant to post-election conversations: The election of Donald Trump was the occasion for Noam Cohen to write an op-ed essay in the New York Times where he excoriated the role Silicon Valley played. Cohen will continue to monitor the disruptive political, intellectual and cultural role the Valley plays when this book is published.
Blurbs/endorsements: We will be pursuing the likes of Tim Wu, Cathy O'Neil, Kara Swisher, Steven Levy, and Cory Doctorow for blurbs.
Reviews / Votes
Praise for The Know-It-Alls:?Noam Cohen's The Know-It-Alls provides a provocative and illuminating examination of Silicon Valley. Using profiles of its core digital capitalist giants and the immense political, economic and cultural power they have quickly come to possess, Cohen raises troubling questions about how this can possibly square with a fair, decent, humane, and democratic society. This immensely readable book should be mandatory reading."
?Robert W. McChesney, author of Digital Disconnect
?Individualism is a big part of what makes America great-until it becomes a euphemism for selfishness and arrogance among lucky winners who prefer to believe that luck and other people had nothing to do with their success. The Know-It-Alls is a terrific case study of some of the unreckoned costs of the digital revolution, and how one piece of the American idea threatens to overwhelm the others."
?Kurt Andersen
?The Know-It-Alls is a fascinating intellectual profile of the people who have increasingly come to rule our world. With precision and skill, Noam Cohen tweaks the pretensions of a handful of tech oligarchs, whose self-styled project to better our lives results in little more than a power grab at our economy and our democracy. As America's center of gravity inexorably shifts to Silicon Valley, and the original vision of a decentralized Internet of personal expression gets drowned in a sea of commerce and advertising, I'll be turning to Cohen's insights into the profiteers responsible again and again."
?David Dayen, author of Chain of Title
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paper over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 219 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
425 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62097-210-6 (9781620972106)
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Person
Noam Cohen covered the influence of the Internet on the larger culture for the New York Times, where he wrote the Link by Link column, beginning in 2007. He lives in Brooklyn with his family. This is his first book.