7. The Limits to Growth is a 1972 report commissioned by the Club of Rome, a European NGO, that predicted rapid declines in global population and industrial capacity beginning in the early twenty-first century.
8. Robo-advisers are systems that provide automated portfolio management advice.
9. Artificial neural networks are the technology that forms the basis of the recent AI boom.
10. SoFi and Earnest are online lenders that offer personal loans, student loan refinancing, and other services.
11. A protected class is defined by U.S. federal antidiscrimination law as a group of people with a common characteristic who are legally protected from discrimination on the basis of that characteristic. The characteristics include race, religion, and gender.
12. A service of Quicken Loans that offers an online mortgage service.
13. Fintech is short for “financial technology,” and it refers to a group of companies that are trying to use technology to transform financial services.
14. LendingClub is a peer-to-peer lending company. In 2014, it went public in the year’s largest U.S. tech company IPO; in 2016, a series of scandals drove its share price down nearly 85 percent, where it has more or less remained.
15. On December 2, 2015, two attackers killed fourteen people and injured twenty-two others in a mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California.
16. Y Combinator is an early-stage startup investor and accelerator.
17. The Homestead steel strike was an 1892 labor dispute at Andrew Carnegie’s Homestead steel mill, in Pennsylvania, involving violent clashes between union members and private security forces.
6. The Massage Therapist
1. In June 2011, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a measure that removed the 1.5 percent payroll tax for all new jobs for six years if these jobs were created by companies that opened offices in the economically struggling Mid-Market area. The measure was popularly known as the “Twitter tax break,” because it was designed to keep Twitter in the city after the company announced it was planning to relocate.
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A Note About the Editors
Ben Tarnoff is the author of the books The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature and A Counterfeiter’s Paradise: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Early American Moneymakers and is a cofounder of Logic magazine. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The New Republic, Jacobin, and Lapham’s Quarterly, among other publications. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. You can sign up for email updates here.
Moira Weigel is the author of the book Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Nation, The New Republic, and n+1, among other publications, and she is a cofounder of Logic magazine. She is a Junior Fellow at Harvard University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Introduction: The Everyone Machine
1. The Founder
Failing Up, Down, and Sideways
Making the World a Better Place
2. The Technical Writer
Source of Truth
False Choices
The Conversations Are Louder
3. The Cook
A Really Good Feeling
Happy Bill Gates Day!
4. The Engineer
Into the Mothership
The Culture Is Changing
People on the Internet Are Jerks
Do the Right Thing
A Deep Bench
5. The Data Scientist
Money Machines
The Future
6. The Massage Therapist
Invisible Lines
Closing Time
7. The Storyteller
Balancing Acts
Inside Voices
Acknowledgments
Notes
Also by Ben Tarnoff
A Note About the Editors
Copyright
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