Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (891 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01N4P12XJ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 434 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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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 MachineThe 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. Life in Code is an essential text toward our understanding of the last twenty years—and the next twenty.. It is necessarily the story of digital technology’s loss of innocence as it entered the cultural mainstream, and it is a personal reckoning with all that has changed, and so much that hasn’t. In 1997 Ullman wrote Close to the Machine, the now classic and still definitive account of life as a coder at the b
She went on to have a twenty-year career as a programmer and software engineer. Her new book, Life in Code:A Personal History of Technology, tells a continuing story of the technical world as she experienced it while living in its midst for more than two decades. . She is the author of two novels: By Blood, a New York Times Notable Book; and The Bug, a
“This book is an original. But she also comes with novel material We see the seduction at the heart of programming: embedded in the hijinks and hieroglyphics are the esoteric mysteries of the human mind.” Constance Hale, Wired. Biersdorfer, The New York Times Book Review“Ullman comes with her tech bona fides intact (she is, after all, a seasoned software engineer). It reads like a memoir, personal and compelling. Life in Code will launch the most interesting conversati