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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents (25th Anniversary Edition)

Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents (25th Anniversary Edition) - Paperback

by Ellen Ullman
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ellen Ullman, Anna Wiener (Introduction by)Publish date:2022-12-06Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250884121ISBN-10:1250884128UPC:9781250884121Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, ComputersBook Subcategory:Science & Technology, Technology Studies, HistorySize:8.25 x 5.47 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4299Product ID:SCDGQ6G6E2

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250884121ISBN-10:1250884128UPC:9781250884121Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, ComputersBook Subcategory:Science & Technology, Technology Studies, HistorySize:8.25 x 5.47 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4299Product ID:SCDGQ6G6E2
Ellen 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.
Publisher: Picador USA

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Ellen Ullman, Anna Wiener (Introduction by)

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Ellen Ullman

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