Close to the Machine (25th Anniversary Edition): Technophilia and Its Discontents by Ellen Ullman
Close to the Machine (25th Anniversary Edition): Technophilia and Its Discontents

Ellen Ullman

Close to the Machine (25th Anniversary Edition): Technophilia and Its Discontents

Ellen Ullman

224 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography memoir science technology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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In 1997, the computer was still a relatively new tool—a sleek and unforgiving machine that was beyond the grasp of most users. With intimate and unflinching detail, the software engineer Ellen Ullman examines the strange ecstasy of being at the fo...

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