Dave Eggers’ arm’s-length relationship with technological novelty gives him a level of insight most of us might not have.
‘Uncanny Valley’ by Anna Wiener is a biting, funny memoir from inside San Francisco’s start-up culture.The laptop that houses his copy of Quark is from 2003. “That’s what I write on. It’s never been connected to the internet,” Eggers said. If it were connected, automatic updates would incur extra fees and possibly disable the software.
And in the same way, it can evolve gradually, insidiously. “I’m always interested in these small steps that we barely notice that take us from healthy relationships with technology to ever more control and surveillance.” And his careful eye on the ways people incrementally relinquish privacy, financial independence and choice is what powers “The Every.” The company’s worst intentions notwithstanding, it’s the users who welcome its ease and its innovations, overlooking the personal cost.
The Every — the company — isn’t terrible. Notably, it leverages its vastness to benefit the environment. But even this can be silly when taken to extremes: The corporation has concluded not only that single-use disposable dishes are bad but that washing tableware is just as destructive, so the entire campus subsists on finger foods. My favorite were drinking balls, piled up like canapés, that have to be consumed in a single awkward mouthful.
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