Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (788 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374534519 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Life in Code is an essential text toward our understanding of the last twenty yearsand 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. 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. 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 in
The question of our ‘post-humanity’ is tackled as just that, a question for human beings to discuss rather than a technical problem for programmers to dispense with. But it’s also a set of savvy reflections about the unfolding of digital culture as it became mainstream culture and we all learned to live with its aesthetic, values, and politics. It reads like a memoir, personal and compelling. “This book is an original. D. Biersdorfer, The New York Times Book Review“Ullman comes with her tech bona fides intact (she is, after all, a seasoned software engineer). Life in Code will launch the most interesting conversations!” Sherry Turkle, author of Alone Together and Reclaiming Conversation"Sharply written, politically charged What Anthony Bourdain did for chefs, Ullman does for computer geeks." Kirkus (starred review)"Ullman maintains a healthy skepticism regarding t
She is the author of two 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. 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 new bo