Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area

This exploration begins by tracing the concentration of IT in Greater Silicon Valley and the resulting growth in start-ups, jobs, and wealth. This is followed by a look at the new working class of color and the millions earning poverty wages. The middle chapters survey the urban scene, including the housing bubble and the newly exploded metropolis, and the final chapters take on the political questions raised by the environmental impact of the boom, the fantastical ideology of TechWorld, and the tech-led transformation of the region.

• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
• Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
• Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It
• Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
• Working
• Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
• The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
• Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
• The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
• Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley