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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents by Ullmann, Ellen
by Ullmann, Ellen | PB | Good
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- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 0872863328
- Subject Area
- Computers, Education, Business & Economics
- Publication Name
- Close to the Machine : Technophilia and Its Discontents
- Publisher
- City Lights
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Subject
- Industries / Computers & Information Technology, Programming / General, Multicultural Education, General, Data Processing
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 8 Oz
- Item Width
- 5 in
- Number of Pages
- 189 Pages
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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. 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.
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Publisher
City Lights
ISBN-10
0872863328
ISBN-13
9780872863323
eBay Product ID (ePID)
499188
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
189 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Close to the Machine : Technophilia and Its Discontents
Publication Year
2001
Subject
Industries / Computers & Information Technology, Programming / General, Multicultural Education, General, Data Processing
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Computers, Education, Business & Economics
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
8 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
97-027244
Dewey Edition
23
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This book is a masterpiece, an exquisitely melancholy cry from a body disappearing into the machine. It is a wrenching swan-song for human beings. I have never read anything like it because nothing like it could have been written before. Here is the perfect way to say goodbye to the millennium., There are no crazed hackers here; no zen-master software moguls; no media stereotypes; just a wonderfully written book about Ullman's days and nights at the heart of the new machine. I recommend it with unfettered enthusiasm., Her talent enables readers to explore intimately, and without forced profundity, one of the biggest questions of our time: What it is about numerical, seemingly inhuman world of computing that holds such power, wholly human allure., This memoir of life in the electronic world is reckoning, a warning, a seduction. It is also very funny., Computer programmers are remaking the world. Here is ground truth about that world-making and brilliant critique of it. The reader vibrates between delight and alarm on every page.
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Dewey Decimal
005.1092
Lc Classification Number
Qa76.2.U43a3 1997
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