‘Burn Book’ author Kara Swisher on her life—and our broken tech indust
If Kara Swisher’s new memoir, Burn Book, doubles as a history of the internet and its often jarring impact on our lives over the past three decades, it’s only natural. As she was establishing herself as an uncommonly well-sourced journalist, the online world was about to take off: The rise of AOL, followed by its disastrous merger with Time Warner, was among the dramatic arcs she chronicled early on.Since then, Swisher has been the most entrepreneurial of reporters, both in the doggedness of her work and the ever-evolving…