Close to the Machine

Edition: Reprint
Release: 2012-02-28
Publisher: Picador
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 1250002486



Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents

With a New Introduction by Jaron Lanier A Salon Best Book of the Year

In 1997, the computer was still a relatively new tool---a sleek and unforgiving machine that was beyond the grasp of most users. Free download Close to the Machine books collection in PDF, EPUB, FB2, MOBI, and TXT formats. With intimate and unflinching detail, software engineer Ellen Ullman examines the strange ecstasy of being at the forefront of the predominantly male technological revolution, and the difficulty of translating the inherent messiness of human life into artful and efficient code. Close to the Machine is an elegant and revelatory mediation on the dawn of the digital era.If there is such a thing as a typical computer programmer, Ellen Ullman is not it. She's female, a former communist, bisexual, old enough to be a twentysomething's mom, and not a nerd. Best deals ebooks download Close to the Machine on amazon. She runs her own computer-consulting business in San Francisco and in Close to the Machine explores a world in which "the real world and its uses no longer matter." This memoir examines the relationship between human and machine, between material and cyberworlds and reminds us that the body and soul exist before and after any machine. The wit Ullman brings to her National Public Radio commentaries shines through in the prose. Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents with free ebook downloads available via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, and hotfile.

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