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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents by Ullmann, Ellen
by Ullmann, Ellen | PB | Good
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- 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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Product Identifiers
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
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
97-027244
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
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., 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., 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., 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.
Dewey Decimal
005.1092
Synopsis
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., This text is a candid account of the life of a software engineer who runs her own computer consulting business. We find a smart, funny bisexual torn between the pure, abstract world of programming and her involvement in San Francisco's city-wide registration system for AIDS patients., Here is a candid account of the life of a software engineer who runs her own computer consulting business out of a live-work loft in San Francisco's Multimedia Gulch. Immersed in the abstract world of information, algorithms, and networks, she would like to give in to the seductions of the programmer's world, where "weird logic dreamers" like herself live "close to the machine." Still, she is keenly aware that body and soul are not mechanical: desire, love, and the need to communicate face to face don't easily fit into lines of codes or clicks in a Web browser. At every turn, she finds she cannot ignore the social and philosophical repercussions of her work. As Ullman sees it, the cool world of cyber culture is neither the death of civilization nor its salvation--it is the vulnerable creation of people who are not so sure of just where they're taking us all. Ellen Ullman has worked as a software engineer and consultant since 1978. She is the author of The Bug and her writing has been published in Resisting the Virtual Life, Wired Woman, and in Harper's Magazine. She is a commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."", Here is a candid account of the life of a software engineer who runs her own computer consulting business out of a live-work loft in San Francisco's Multimedia Gulch. Immersed in the abstract world of information, algorithms, and networks, she would like to give in to the seductions of the programmer's world, where "weird logic dreamers" like herself live "close to the machine." Still, she is keenly aware that body and soul are not mechanical: desire, love, and the need to communicate face to face don't easily fit into lines of codes or clicks in a Web browser. At every turn, she finds she cannot ignore the social and philosophical repercussions of her work. As Ullman sees it, the cool world of cyber culture is neither the death of civilization nor its salvation-it is the vulnerable creation of people who are not so sure of just where they're taking us all. Ellen Ullman has worked as a software engineer and consultant since 1978. She is the author of The Bug and her writing has been published in Resisting the Virtual Life, Wired Woman, and in Harper's Magazine. She is a commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."", 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...
LC Classification Number
QA76.2.U43A3 1997
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