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Brian Merchant on the End of the Silicon Valley Myth: Why Big Tech now faces a Reckoning

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

January 23, 2023

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

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In this episode, Andrew talks to the tech journalist, Brian Merchant, author of the recent Atlantic feature “The End of the Silicon Valley Myth.” Brian and Andrew discuss the future of Google, Meta, Apple and Amazon in the face of tech worker unrest and government regulation of Big Tech. And Brian gives a preview of important upcoming book, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech, due out in the Fall of 2023.

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