Description
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
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 12/06/2022
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.47w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781250884121
ISBN10: 1250884128
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
- Social Science | Technology Studies
- Computers | History
About the Author
Ellen Ullman wrote her first computer program in 1978. She went on to have a twenty-year career as a programmer and software engineer. Her essays and books have become landmark works describing the social, emotional, and personal effects of technology. She is the author of the novels By Blood, a New York Times Notable Book; and The Bug, a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her memoir, Close to the Machine, about her life as a software engineer during the internet's first rise, became a cult classic. She is based in San Francisco.