ISBN号:9781982163914
书名:Burn Book
作者:Kara Swisher
出版日期:2024-02-27
英文简介:
Instant New York Times Bestseller From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.
“Swisher, the bad-ass journalist and OG chronicler of Silicon Valley.
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takes no prisoners in this highly readable look at the evolution of the digital world.
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Bawdy, brash, and compulsively thought-provoking, just like its author, Burn Book sizzles” (Booklist, starred review).
Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players.
From “the queen of all media” (Walt Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal), this is the inside story we’ve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world.
When tech titans crowed that they would “move fast and break things,” Kara Swisher was moving faster and breaking news.
While covering the explosion of the digital sector in the early 1990s, she developed a long track record of digging up and reporting the facts about this new world order.
Her consistent scoops drove one CEO to accuse her of “listening in the heating ducts” and prompted Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg to once observe: “It is a constant joke in the Valley when people write memos for them to say, ‘I hope Kara never sees this.
‘” While still in college, Swisher got her start at The Washington Post, where she became one of the few people in journalism interested in covering the nascent Internet.
She went on to work for The Wall Street Journal, joining with Walt Mossberg to start the groundbreaking D: All Things Digital conference, as well as pioneering tech news sites.
Swisher has interviewed everyone who matters in tech over three decades, right when they presided over an explosion of world-changing innovation that has both helped and hurt our world.
Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, Bob Iger, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Meg Whitman, Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, and Mark Zuckerberg are just a few whom Swisher made sweat–figuratively and, in Zuckerberg’s case, literally.
Despite the damage she chronicles, Swisher remains optimistic about tech’s potential to help solve problems and not just create them.
She calls upon the industry to make better, more thoughtful choices, even as a new set of powerful AI tools are poised to change the world yet again.
At its heart, this book is a love story to, for, and about tech from someone who knows it better than anyone.
中文简介:
《纽约时报》即时畅销书 屡获殊荣的记者卡拉·斯威舍 (Kara Swisher) 对科技行业及其创始人进行了诙谐、严厉但公正的描述，他们本想改变世界，但却打破了世界。
“斯威舍，这位硅谷的坏蛋记者和 OG 编年史家……在这本可读性极强的数字世界演变中毫不留情……淫荡、傲慢、不由自主地发人深省，就像它的作者一样，烧书嘶嘶作响”（书单，加星评论）。
《Burn Book》一半是回忆录，一半是历史，是科技界最强大参与者的必要编年史。
这是我们一直在等待的关于现代硅谷和世界历史上最大规模的财富创造热潮的内幕故事。
当科技巨头们夸耀他们将“快速行动并打破常规”时，卡拉·斯威舍却在更快地行动并带来突发新闻。
在报道 20 世纪 90 年代初数字行业爆炸式增长的过程中，她在挖掘和报道有关这一新世界秩序的事实方面积累了丰富的经验。
她一贯的独家新闻迫使一位首席执行官指责她“在暖气管道里偷听”，并促使 Facebook 的谢丽尔·桑德伯格 (Sheryl Sandberg) 曾经观察到：“当人们写备忘录让他们说‘我希望卡拉永远不会看到’时，这在硅谷一直是一个笑话。
”还在上大学的时候，斯威舍就在《华盛顿邮报》开始了自己的职业生涯，在那里她成为新闻界少数几个对报道新兴互联网感兴趣的人之一。
她继续为《华尔街日报》工作，与沃尔特·莫斯伯格 (Walt Mossberg) 一起发起了开创性的 D: All Things Digital 会议，以及开创性的科技新闻网站。
三十年来，斯威舍采访了科技领域的每一位重要人物，当时他们主持了改变世界的创新爆炸式增长，这些创新既帮助了我们的世界，也伤害了我们的世界。
史蒂夫·乔布斯、杰夫·贝佐斯、埃隆·马斯克、比尔·盖茨、谢丽尔·桑德伯格、鲍勃·艾格、拉里·佩奇、谢尔盖·布林、梅格·惠特曼、彼得·蒂尔、萨姆·奥尔特曼和马克·扎克伯格只是斯威舍让其汗流浃背的几个人——象征性地，扎克伯格的案例，字面意义上的。
尽管斯威舍记录了这些损失，但她仍然对科技帮助解决问题而不仅仅是制造问题的潜力持乐观态度。
她呼吁业界做出更好、更深思熟虑的选择，即使一套新的强大人工智能工具即将再次改变世界。
从本质上讲，这本书是一个比任何人都更了解科技的人与科技、为科技以及关于科技的爱情故事。
书籍总体字数：86142，除去名字和专有名词等之后还剩余79602计入单词总数。
书籍单词数在5万至10万之间，难度适合,不过还需要结合下方难度分析。
其中：
四级单词出现71588个/次,
六级单词（排除四级单词后）出现1348个/次，
托福单词出现36017个/次，
SAT单词出现4998个/次，
GRE单词出现8316个/次，考研单词出现71949个/次，
雅思单词出现19624个/次。
高中单词出现68791个/次。
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这些统计基于我的词库，不排除词库存在误差，仅供参考。
非常欢迎大家提供自己收集的词库给我。
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