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Close to the Machine : Technophilia and Its Discontents (25th Anniversary Edition)
by Ellen Ullman and Anna Wiener
Overview
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.Customers Also Bought
Details
- ISBN-13: 9781250884121
- ISBN-10: 1250884128
- Publisher: Picador USA
- Publish Date: December 2022
- Dimensions: 8.25 x 5.47 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.43 pounds
- Page Count: 224
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