Close to the Machine (25th Anniversary Edition): Technophilia and Its Discontents

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.

Author: Ellen Ullman
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 12/06/2022
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.47w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781250884121
Language: English