Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents by Ellen Ullman

Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents

Ellen Ullman

209 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

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

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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents, Ellen Ullman's cult classic memoir of the world of computers in the 1980s and early 1990s, is an insight of a world we rarely see up close."We see the seduction at the heart of programming: e...

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reflective 83%
inspiring 66%
funny 33%
emotional 16%
hopeful 16%
lighthearted 16%

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