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Close to the Machine (25th Anniversary Edition): Technophilia and Its Discontents (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250884121)
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xWhen 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.Author: Ellen Ullman
ISBN-10: 1250884128
ISBN-13: 9781250884121
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 12/06/2022
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.47w x 0.60d
By Ellen Ullman
xEllen Ullman wrote her first computer program in 1978. She went on to have a twenty-year career as a programmer and software engineer. Her essays and books have become landmark works describing the social, emotional, and personal effects of technology. She is the author of the novels By Blood, a New York Times Notable Book; and The Bug, a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her memoir, Close to the Machine, about her life as a software engineer during the internet's first rise, became a cult classic. She is based in San Francisco.
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