Life in code : a personal history of technology

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Label

Life in code : a personal history of technology

Title remainder

a personal history of technology

Statement of responsibility

Ellen Ullman

Creator

• Ullman, Ellen

Author

• Ullman, Ellen

Subject

• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology
• Biography
• COMPUTERS -- Social Aspects
• Computer programmers
• Computer programmers -- United States -- Biography
• Computer programming
• Computer programming -- History
• History
• Autobiographies
• Internet -- History
• TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects
• Ullman, Ellen
• Ullman, Ellen
• United States
• Internet
• Autobiographies

Genre

• History
• Biography
• Autobiographies

Language

eng

Summary

"The last twenty years have brought us the rise of the internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginably powerful computers, and the thorough transformation of our economy and society. Through it all, Ellen Ullman lived and worked inside that rising culture of technology, and in [this book] she tells the continuing story of the changes it wrought with a unique, expert perspective. When Ullman moved to San Francisco in the early 1970s and went on to become a computer programmer, she was joining a small, idealistic, and almost exclusively male cadre that aspired to genuinely change the world. In 1997 Ullman wrote Close to the Machine, the now classic and still definitive account of life as a coder at the birth of what would be a sweeping technological, cultural, and financial revolution. Twenty years later, the story Ullman recounts is neither one of unbridled triumph nor a nostalgic denial of progress. It is necessarily the story of digital technology's loss of innocence as it entered the cultural mainstream, and it is a personal reckoning with all that has changed, and so much that hasn't. [This book] is essential to our understanding of the last twenty years-- and the next twenty."--Jacket

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 005.1092
• B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

QA76.2.U43

LC item number

A3 2017

Literary form

non fiction