Wed, Aug 26
|Book Society
City on the Edge: How Tech Remade San Francisco
A conversation with Jonathan Weber, author of City on the Edge: Technology, Politics, and the Fight for the Soul of San Francisco, and Frances Dinkelspiel, co-founder of Berkeleyside. They’ll take a candid look at how SF became the tech capital of the world—and nearly came undone in the process.
Time & Location
Aug 26, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Book Society, 2945 College Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705, USA
About the event
At the dawn of the 1990s, San Francisco was a beautiful if troubled mid-sized city—still reeling from the AIDS epidemic and the Loma Prieta earthquake, its boom-and-bust economy stuck in a long decline. Then a band of free-thinking technology enthusiasts immersed themselves in the city's singular creative zeitgeist and helped invent the modern internet. What followed was a transformation unlike any in recent American history: an economic and cultural juggernaut that could fairly claim the title of tech capital of the world—and, in the shadows, a mounting crisis of homelessness, addiction, and a political establishment that had lost the plot.
In City on the Edge, reporter and newsroom leader Jonathan Weber—an eyewitness to these events—delivers a sweeping history of a city that rose to dizzying heights only to be all but undone by the heedlessness of the tech industry it did so much to spawn. Drawing on some two hundred…
Tickets
Book Society Members
Ticket rate for active Book Society Members only. One ticket per member. Additional guest tickets should be purchased at General Admission rate. Or tell your friends to join ! Learn more about how to become a member today at www.booksociety.social/membership.
$30.00
+$0.75 ticket service fee
General Admission
Non-member ticket rate
$45.00
+$1.13 ticket service fee
Member Ticket + Book
Book Society Member Ticket + a copy of City on the Edge. You are welcome to pick your book up prior to the event if you would like to pre-read! Ticket rate for active Book Society Members only. One ticket per member. Additional guest tickets should be purchased at General Admission rate. Or tell your friends to join ! Learn more about how to become a member today at www.booksociety.social/membership.
$62.00
+$1.55 ticket service fee
General Admission + Book
General Admission + copy of City on the Edge You are welcome to pick your book up prior to the event if you would like to pre-read!
$77.00
+$1.93 ticket service fee
Total
$0.00