9780374534516-0374534519-Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

ISBN-13: 9780374534516
ISBN-10: 0374534519
Author: Ellen Ullman
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: MCD
Format: Hardcover 320 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780374534516
ISBN-10: 0374534519
Author: Ellen Ullman
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: MCD
Format: Hardcover 320 pages

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Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology (ISBN-13: 9780374534516 and ISBN-10: 0374534519), written by authors Ellen Ullman, was published by MCD in 2017. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Authors (Arts & Literature, Women, Specific Groups, Scientists, Professionals & Academics, Biographies, History & Culture, Engineering, Social Aspects, Technology, Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Authors books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.58.

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Named one of the best books of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review, GQ, Slate, San Francisco Chronicle, Bookforum, and Kirkus

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 technological, cultural, and financial revolution.

Twenty years later, the story Ullman recounts is neither one of unbridled triumph nor a nostalgic denial of progress. 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. Life in Code is an essential text toward our understanding of the last twenty years―and the next twenty.

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