Siliconned

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A start-up wastes a billion dollars making videos nobody wants to watch.</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> 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.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The tech industry has a tendency to go crazy. In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Siliconned</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> industry insider Emmanuel Maggiori decodes tech's hysteria and explains why we all pay the price for it. </span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>You'll discover:</strong></p><ol><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How tech investment became a blind hunt for pipe dreams unicorns and explosive growth;</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How shady incentives reward tech investors for burning cash;</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How governments and central banks pour fuel on the fire;</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How tech companies squander talent and how well-intentioned fads like Agile and Lean help cover it up.</span></li></ol><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From low interest rates to gigantic bubbles <em>Siliconned</em> turns the tech industry upside down and suggests how to fix it.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Emmanuel Maggiori PhD is a software engineer writer and speaker. He's the author of the best-selling book </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Smart Until It's Dumb: Why artificial intelligence keeps making epic mistakes (and why the AI bubble will burst).</em></p>