Close to the Machine (25th Anniversary Edition)
Publisher,Picador USA
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Format, Paperback
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No. of Pages, 189
Shelf: General Books / Humanities / Biographies / Memoirs
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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.
About the Author
Anna Wiener is a contributing writer to The New Yorker. She is the author of the memoir Uncanny Valley, which was a New York Times bestseller and selected as one of the New York Times top ten books of 2020. She lives in San Francisco.
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