Binding: Paperback
Description: When Ellen Ullman's memoir of her life as a software engineer was published in 1997, it was greeted as a revelatory meditation on the dawn of the digital era. Now twenty - five years later Close to the Machine is a true classic a touchstone work that illuminates our time and our future life in technology. It is the story of a woman whose life is spinning out of control. Technology becomes her unlikely lifeline. As she navigates this socially flawed and male - dominated world Ullman shows us the struggle of translating the messiness of human thought into algorithms and also discovers unexpected beauty in the logic of code.
Title: Close To The Machine Technophilia And Its Discontents (25th Anniversary Edition)
Author(s): Ullman Ellen
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250884121
Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 12/6/2022
Category: Autobiography: Science, Technology & Medicine