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Ullman, Ellen
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Fiction
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2017
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux;Mcd
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English
β 260 KB
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Life in code: a personal history of technology
β Scribed by Ellen Ullman
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux;Mcd
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 262 KB
- Edition
- 1. edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0374711410
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal Close to the Machine
The last twenty years have brought us the rise of the internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginably powerful computers, and the thorough transformation of our economy and society. Through it all, Ellen Ullman lived and worked inside that rising culture of technology, and in Life in Code she tells the continuing story of the changes it wrought with a unique, expert perspective.
When Ellen Ullman moved to San Francisco in the early 1970s and went on to become a computer programmer, she was joining a small, idealistic, and almost exclusively male cadre that aspired to genuinely change the world. In 1997 Ullman wrote Close to the Machine, the now classic and still definitive account of life as a coder at the birth of what would be a sweeping...
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