Subtitled "How the tech industry solves fake problems, hoards idle workers, and makes doomed bets with other people's money", this book argues that the tech industry has a tendency to go crazy. Emmanuel Maggiori decodes tech’s hysteria and explains why we all pay the price for it.

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A start-up wastes a billion dollars making videos nobody wants to watch. A city rushes to build landing pads for flightless air taxi prototypes. Tech giants hire thousands of techies for fake projects to stop them working for rivals. From low interest rates to gigantic bubbles, Siliconned turns the tech industry upside down and suggests how to fix it.

Author: Emmanuel Maggiori
Publisher: Applied Maths
Date: July 2024
Pages: 230
ISBN: 978-1838337278
Print: 183833727X
Kindle: ‎ B0D7MRG775
Audience: General
Level: Introductory
Category: General interest 

Topics include:

• How tech investment became a blind hunt for pipe dreams, unicorns, and explosive growth
• How shady incentives reward tech investors for burning cash
• How governments and central banks pour fuel on the fire
• How tech companies squander talent, and how well-intentioned fads like Agile and Lean help cover it up

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