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In the Beginning...Was the Command Line

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This is "the Word" -- one man's word, certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the "one man" is Neal Stephenson, "the hacker Hemingway" (Newsweek) -- acclaimed novelist, pragmatist, seer, nerd-friendly philosopher, and nationally bestselling author of groundbreaking literary works (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, etc., etc.) -- the word is well worth hearing. Mostly well-reasoned examination and partial rant, Stephenson's In the Beginning... was the Command Line is a thoughtful, irreverent, hilarious treatise on the cyber-culture past and present; on operating system tyrannies and downloaded popular revolutions; on the Internet, Disney World, Big Bangs, not to mention the meaning of life itself.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780380815937
  • ISBN-10: 0380815931
  • Publisher: William Morrow & Company
  • Publish Date: November 1999
  • Dimensions: 8.02 x 5.34 x 0.44 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.31 pounds
  • Page Count: 160

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