Close to the Machine - Technophilia and Its Discontents

Informationen zum Autor Ellen Ullman's Close to the Machine , a memoir of her time as a software engineer during the early years of the internet revolution, became a cult classic and established her as a writer of considerable talent; with her second book, The Bug , she became an acclaimed and vital novelist; By Blood is her third. All three titles are published in the UK by Pushkin Press. Her essays and opinion pieces have been widely published in venues such as Harper's , The New York Times , Salon , and Wired . She lives in San Francisco. Klappentext Close to the Machine, Ellen Ullman's cult classic memoir of the world of computers in the 1980s and early 1990s is an insight into a world we rarely see up-close but which permeates all of our lives ever more deeply. Includes a new introduction by Jaron Lanier, author of You are Not a Gadget (Penguin).Ellen Ullman's cult classic memoir of the world of computers during the internet revolution Zusammenfassung Close to the Machine! Ellen Ullman's cult classic memoir of the world of computers in the 1980s and early 1990s is an insight into a world we rarely see up-close but which permeates all of our lives ever more deeply. Includes a new introduction by Jaron Lanier! author of You are Not a Gadget (Penguin).

Product details

• Authors: Ullman Ellen, Ellen Ullman, Ellen (Author) Ullman, Ullman Ellen
• Assisted by: Lanier Jaron (Introduction)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 14.03.2013
• EAN: 9781908968135
• ISBN: 978-1-908968-13-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business, Autobiography: business & industry, COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / General, COMPUTERS / Programming / General, Computer programming / software engineering, Autobiography: business and industry, Computer Programming / Software Development