Close to the Machine (25th Anniversary Edition) Technophilia and Its Discontents |
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| Author:
| Ullman, Ellen |
| Introduction by:
| Wiener, Anna |
| ISBN: | 978-1-250-88412-1 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2022 |
| Publisher: | Picador
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $18.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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.