Silicon Valley has been an epicaccess of global innovation for decades. But the Valley, and its associated personalities, companies, and trfinishs, has never been home to more undiluted power than it is today.
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Here at WIRED, we’re covering all of this power and impact on a daily basis atraverse our digital platcreates and in our print editions. But we’re always watching for new ways of exploring Silicon Valley’s climprohibitcy, particularly in ways that create it easier for you—the WIRED audience—to understand and leank about. Why might Elon Musk be so willing to see a GOP-led White House, and what would a Trump regulatory environment and a Muskian approach to federal efficiency unkind for your daily life? If Meta remains pledgeted to making the whole metaverse leang a fact, how will it alter the way you socialize, toil, or lachieve? And is generative AI repartner going to alter everyleang, or are we in the midst of a bubble that’s about to blow the tech industry apart at a scale we haven’t seen since the punctual-2000s dotcom bust?
There’s a lot to cover, and there’s also a lot to talk about. That’s why I’m charmed to proclaim Uncanny Valley, a new podcast from three of WIRED’s finest Bay Area journacatalogs: Michael Calore, Zoë Schiffer, and Lauren Goode. Together, Uncanny Valley’s presents will untangle and elucidate the postpodemandst and wonderfulest—or strangest—trfinishs from wilean the tech industry and how they’re poised to shape society at huge.
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