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CLOSE TO THE MACHINE: TECHNOPHILIA AND ITS DISCONTENTS (2022 TPB){U7}
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
1250884128
ISBN-13
9781250884121
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3057264500
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Close to the Machine (25th Anniversary Edition) : Technophilia and Its Discontents
Publication Year
2022
Subject
History, Science & Technology
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Computers, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
6.7 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
25
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2022-039673
Reviews
"Astonishing...Impossible to put down." -- San Francisco Chronicle " Close to the Machine may be the best---it's certainly the most human---book to have emerged thus far from the culture of Silicon Valley. Ullman is that rarity, a computer programmer with a poet's feeling for language." -- Laura Miller, Salon "Part memoir, part techie mantra, part observation on the ever-changing world of computer science...[Ullman is] a strong woman standing up to, and facing down, 'obsolescence' in two different, particularly unforgiving worlds---modern technology and modern society." -- The New York Times Book Review "Fascinating...Chock-full of delicately profound insights into work, money, love, and the search for a life that matters." -- Newsweek "Ullman comes with her tech bona fides intact (she is, after all, a seasoned software engineer). But she also comes with novel material....We see the seduction at the heart of programming: embedded in the hijinks and hieroglyphics are the esoteric mysteries of the human mind." -- Wired "This book is a little masterpiece....I have never read anything like it." -- Andrei Codrescu "For someone sitting so close to the machine, Ellen Ullman possesses a remarkably wide-angle perspective on the technology culture she inhabits." -- The Village Voice
Synopsis
When Ellen Ullman's memoir of her life as a software engineer was published in 1997, it was greeted as a revelatory meditation on the dawn of the digital era. Now, twenty-five years later, Close to the Machine is a true classic, a touchstone work that illuminates our time and our future life in technology. It is the story of a woman whose life is spinning out of control. Technology becomes her unlikely lifeline. As she navigates this socially flawed and male-dominated world, Ullman shows us the struggle of translating the messiness of human thought into algorithms, and also discovers unexpected beauty in the logic of code., When Ellen Ullman's memoir of her life as a software engineer was published in 1997, it was greeted as a revelatory meditation on the dawn of the digital era. Now, twenty-five years later, Close to the Machine is a true classic, a touchstone work that illuminates our time and our future life in technology. It is the story of a woman whose life is spinning out of control. Technology becomes her unlikely lifeline. As she navigates this socially flawed and male-dominated world, Ullman shows us the struggle of translating the messiness of human thought into algorithms, and also discovers unexpected beauty in the logic of code. Book jacket.
LC Classification Number
QA76.2.U43A3 2022
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