Close to the Machine (25th Anniversary Edition): Technophilia and Its Discontents
Ullman, Ellen, Wiener, Anna
- 出版商: Picador USA
- 出版日期: 2022-12-06
- 售價: $860
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $817
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 224
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 1250884128
- ISBN-13: 9781250884121
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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.作者簡介
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.
