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Chaos monkeys : obscene fortune and random failure in Silicon Valley / Antonio García Martínez.

By: Language: eng Publication details: New York : Harper, 2018.Description: 533 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780062458209
  • 0062458205
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HM 742 G216c 2018
Contents:
Part 1: Disturbing the peace. The undertakers of capitalism ; The human attention exchange ; Knowing how to swim ; Abandoning the shipwreck -- Part 2: Pseudorandomness. Let me see your war face ; Like marriage, but without the fucking ; Speed is a feature ; D-Day ; A conclave of angels ; The hill of sand ; Turning and turning in the widening gyre ; ŁNo pasarǹ! ; The dog shit sandwich ; Victory ; Launching! ; Dates @Twitter ; Acquisition chicken ; Getting liked ; Getting poked ; The various futures of the forking paths ; Retweets are not endorsements ; The dotted line ; Endgame -- Part 3: Move fast and break things. Boot camp ; Product masseur ; Google delenda est ; Leaping headlong ; One shot, one kill ; Twice bitten, thrice shy ; Ads five-oh ; The narcissism of privacy ; Are we savages or what? ; O Death ; The barbaric yawn ; Going public ; When the flying saucers fail to appear ; Monetizing the tumor ; The great awakening ; Barbarians at the gates ; IPA> IPO ; Initial public offering: a reevaluation ; Flash boys ; Full frontal Facebook ; Microsoft shrugged ; Ad majorem Facebook gloriam ; Adis̤, Facebook ; Pandemonium lost ; Epilogue: Man plans and God laughs.
Summary: "The industry provocateur behind such companies as Twitter and a nascent Facebook presents an irreverent expos ǒf life inside the tech bubble that traces his hedonist lifestyle against a backdrop of early social media and online marketing, sharing critical insights into how they are shaping today's world."--NoveList
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HM 742 G216c 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000173556

Includes index
"A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2016 by HarperCollins Publishers."--Title page verso
"With a new afterword"--Cover

Part 1: Disturbing the peace. The undertakers of capitalism ; The human attention exchange ; Knowing how to swim ; Abandoning the shipwreck --
Part 2: Pseudorandomness. Let me see your war face ; Like marriage, but without the fucking ; Speed is a feature ; D-Day ; A conclave of angels ; The hill of sand ; Turning and turning in the widening gyre ; ŁNo pasarǹ! ; The dog shit sandwich ; Victory ; Launching! ; Dates @Twitter ; Acquisition chicken ; Getting liked ; Getting poked ; The various futures of the forking paths ; Retweets are not endorsements ; The dotted line ; Endgame --
Part 3: Move fast and break things. Boot camp ; Product masseur ; Google delenda est ; Leaping headlong ; One shot, one kill ; Twice bitten, thrice shy ; Ads five-oh ; The narcissism of privacy ; Are we savages or what? ; O Death ; The barbaric yawn ; Going public ; When the flying saucers fail to appear ; Monetizing the tumor ; The great awakening ; Barbarians at the gates ; IPA> IPO ; Initial public offering: a reevaluation ; Flash boys ; Full frontal Facebook ; Microsoft shrugged ; Ad majorem Facebook gloriam ; Adis̤, Facebook ; Pandemonium lost ; Epilogue: Man plans and God laughs.

"The industry provocateur behind such companies as Twitter and a nascent Facebook presents an irreverent expos ǒf life inside the tech bubble that traces his hedonist lifestyle against a backdrop of early social media and online marketing, sharing critical insights into how they are shaping today's world."--NoveList

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