Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

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Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

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Explore the inner workings of the tech world with these entertaining anecdotes.

A chaos monkey is a kind of program that software engineers use to test their systems and figure out weaknesses. In this witty guide to life in Silicon Valley’s most exciting firms, author Antonio Garcia Martínez suggests that tech entrepreneurs are society’s chaos monkeys because their innovations disrupt traditional markets and transform people’s daily lives. This Snapshot takes you on a humorous, irreverent tour behind the scenes of some of the Valley’s most intriguing companies.

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Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen once said that, in the future, there will be two kinds of jobs: people who tell computers what to do and people who are told by computers what to do. Thanks to computers taking over more and more of the share of human tasks, this future appears to be rapidly becoming a reality. Nowhere has this prediction been more relevant than the world of Wall Street, where complex algorithms determine precisely when, how, and what to trade to generate the highest profits for shareholders.

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