Uncanny Valley

by Anna Wiener

was a year of new optimism: the optimism of no hurdles, no limits, no bad ideas. The optimism of capital, power, and opportunity. Wherever money changed hands, enterprising technologists and MBAs were bound to follow. The word “disruption” proliferated, and everything was ripe for or vulnerable to it: sheet music, tuxedo rentals, home cooking, home buying, wedding planning, banking, shaving, credit

chelonian

It was nice to get new hardcover books for free, but it would be nicer if we could afford to buy them.

Men who said “K” instead of “thousand.”