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Join WIRED@Night for an Uncanny Valley Live Recording on Women, Tech and Power

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Why This Matters

WIRED is hosting a live recording of its Uncanny Valley podcast in San Francisco focused on women, tech, and power, tying into a special fall issue on gender in Silicon Valley. The event highlights ongoing conversations about gender dynamics in tech, featuring both a veteran critic and current WIRED journalists exploring who holds power today.

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Cyberselfish by Paulina Borsook — This newly re-released classic is the perfect primer before attending the Uncanny Valley live recording, offering a sharp, early critique of Silicon Valley's libertarian culture. Reading it will give you great context for the conversation between Borsook and Katie Drummond about tech, gender, and power.

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What is the state of women in Silicon Valley?

In a word: shaky.

This fall, WIRED is making a special issue devoted to gender and power. For the live-audience recording of the Uncanny Valley podcast in San Francisco, WIRED will dig further into the fascinating and nuanced state of affairs. First up: a special conversation between Paulina Borsook, tech journalist and former WIRED writer, and WIRED’s global editorial director Katie Drummond.

Borsook, whose prescient 2000 book Cyberselfish is being re-released this fall, has long been a skeptic of the tech world—which might have been to her detriment during the growth mindset of the past few decades. Come for a lively conversation about WIRED, then and now, and what Borsook thinks of the current trillionaire class.

Then, the podcast panel, featuring executive editor Brian Barrett and contributing editor Zoë Schiffer, will bring on WIRED senior correspondent Lauren Goode to talk about her quest to find the most powerful woman in Silicon Valley.

EVENT INFO

WIRED's Uncanny Valley, feat. Cyberselfish author Paulina Borsook. Co-presented with KQED.

Thursday, October 8 | 7 PM (Doors at 6:30 PM)

The Commons at KQED in San Francisco

General Admission: $25 $15 for WIRED readers. Buy tickets here.

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