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THE INVENTOR: OUT FOR BLOOD IN SILICON VALLEY

March 14, 2019 By Leave a Comment

THE INVENTOR: OUT FOR BLOOD IN SILICON VALLEY

Alex Gibney makes a subtle, but salient, point in THE INVENTOR: OUT FOR BLOOD IN SILICON VALLEY. While recounting the curious story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, the billion-dollar company she founded, he draws the obvious comparison between Holmes and her idol, Thomas Edison, but he doesn’t stop there. Using the tropes of a suspense… Read More »

Tagged With: blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes, lab tests, medical testing, self-made billionaire, Silicon Valley, Theranos

THE CIRCLE

April 30, 2017 By 1 Comment

THE CIRCLE

It is possible that those years of my wayward youth spent toiling in the Valley of Silicon have colored my view of THE CIRCLE. The, at least to me, mundane observations about that particular corporate culture fall with a resounding thud as we see the way work and personal life intermingle, with everything one could… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, hi-tech, monitoring, police state, privacy, Silicon Valley, social media

FOR HERE OR TO GO — Andrea Chase takes you Behind the Scenes of FOR HERE OR TO GO? — Rishi Bhilawadikar and Rucha Humnabadka Interview

April 1, 2017 By Leave a Comment

FOR HERE OR TO GO — Andrea Chase takes you Behind the Scenes of FOR HERE OR TO GO? — Rishi Bhilawadikar and Rucha Humnabadka Interview

Many years ago, I worked a hi-tech job in Silicon Valley, and though I worked side by side with people who had come there from India on work visas, I had no idea of the struggles with which these bright and talented people were dealing. FOR HERE OR TO GO? , though set in 2009,… Read More »

Tagged With: 9/11, bonded servants, Desi, diversity, globalization, green card, home, House of Representatives, immigration, indentured servitude, India, Jawaharlal Nehru, Silicon Valley

WHY HIM?

December 21, 2016 By Leave a Comment

WHY HIM?

Long before he was mild-mannered chemistry teacher turned fearsome drug lord on Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston made his mark in television comedy by, among other things, keeping Malcolm in the middle, and tending to Seinfeld’s teeth.  Those comedic chops stand him in good stead for WHY HIM?, an intermittently hilarious hybrid of the buddy film… Read More »

Tagged With: boyfriend, Christmas, father-daughter, hi-tech, paperless toilet, printing business, Silicon Valley, Stanford

COMPANY TOWN — Deborah Kaufman & Alan Snitow Interview

October 27, 2016 By Leave a Comment

COMPANY TOWN — Deborah Kaufman & Alan Snitow Interview

The 2014 election for the supervisor of District 3 in San Francisco became the referendum on tech for filmmakers Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow. The two candidates, Aaron Peskin and Julie Christensen had different approaches to the issues, including the effect of the so-called “sharing economy” on affordable housing in San Francisco.  When we spoke… Read More »

Tagged With: Aaron Peskin, affordable housing, AirBNB, Chinatown, corporate tax breaks, district elections, evictions, gentrification, homelessness, Julie Christensen, losing the middle class, Lyft, Mission District, monetizing, San Francisco, Sharing economy, Silicon Valley, tech economy, tech workers, transparency, Twitter, Uber

STEVE JOBS: THE MAN IN THE MACHINE

September 5, 2015 By 1 Comment

STEVE JOBS: THE MAN IN THE MACHINE

There is one moment in STEVE JOBS: THE MAN IN THE MACHINE that sums up the documentary and the man. It’s when an engineer who worked on the Mac in the 1980s reads the obituary he wrote of Jobs and begins to weep. This after revealing that his three years at Apple cost him his… Read More »

Tagged With: Alex Gibney, Apple, Chinese workers suicide, CNN Films, documentary, hi-tech, iPhone, Mac, Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, tech industry, zen

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