![]() ![]() Wiener deploys this strategy liberally, with adroit specificity and arch timing. All you have to do after that is juxtapose them with the effects of the city’s rocket-ship rents: a once-lively counterculture gasping for air and a 'concentration of public pain' shameful and shocking even to a native New Yorker. It’s possible to create a realistic portrait of contemporary San Francisco by simply listing all the harebrained new-money antics and 'mindful' hippie-redux principles that flourish there. Luckily, the tech industry controls the means of production for excuses to justify a fascination with its shiny surfaces and twisted logic. Wiener frequently emphasizes that, at the time, she didn’t realize all these buoyant 25-year-olds in performance outerwear were leading mankind down a treacherous path. ![]() ![]() Wiener was, and maybe still is, one of us far from seeking to disabuse civic-minded techno-skeptics of our views, she is here to fill out our worst-case scenarios with shrewd insight and literary detail. ![]()
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