Silicon Valley Shadows: Power and Controversy Tech Empires, Ethical Failures, and Institutional Blind Spots
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Altersempfehlung
1 - 99 Jahr(e)
Erscheinungsdatum
27.02.2026
Verlag
EpubliSeitenzahl
212
Maße (L/B/H)
29,7/21/1,3 cm
Gewicht
652 g
Auflage
1
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-3-565-28017-9
Silicon Valley transformed the world through technological innovation—but its most powerful architects often evaded the accountability structures that constrain other industries. From early venture capital conflicts and intellectual property disputes through data privacy scandals, labor exploitation revelations, and the political entanglements of billionaire founders, Silicon Valley Shadows examines the documented tensions between technological ambition and institutional responsibility that have defined the tech industry's rise.
Drawing on congressional testimony, antitrust filings, leaked internal communications, investigative journalism archives, and the scholarship of technology historians, each chapter reconstructs a distinct controversy: the equity battles and non-compete abuses of the 1990s startup era, the privacy debacles that reshaped data regulation, the content moderation failures that amplified societal fractures, and the labor practices—from gig economy classification disputes to campus sexual harassment coverups—that exposed fault lines in corporate culture. The book traces how venture funding insulated companies from traditional oversight, creating a parallel regulatory universe where innovation often trumped ethical constraint.
The final section examines the broader institutional legacy: how tech's concentration of wealth and influence has reshaped policy, philanthropy, and political campaigning, often through relationships documented in public filings and donor records. Silicon Valley Shadows is a serious historical examination of power's new architecture—written for readers who recognize that technological progress without institutional guardrails produces consequences that history will judge long after the valuations fade.
Drawing on congressional testimony, antitrust filings, leaked internal communications, investigative journalism archives, and the scholarship of technology historians, each chapter reconstructs a distinct controversy: the equity battles and non-compete abuses of the 1990s startup era, the privacy debacles that reshaped data regulation, the content moderation failures that amplified societal fractures, and the labor practices—from gig economy classification disputes to campus sexual harassment coverups—that exposed fault lines in corporate culture. The book traces how venture funding insulated companies from traditional oversight, creating a parallel regulatory universe where innovation often trumped ethical constraint.
The final section examines the broader institutional legacy: how tech's concentration of wealth and influence has reshaped policy, philanthropy, and political campaigning, often through relationships documented in public filings and donor records. Silicon Valley Shadows is a serious historical examination of power's new architecture—written for readers who recognize that technological progress without institutional guardrails produces consequences that history will judge long after the valuations fade.
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