This is the Word -- one man's word, certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the one man is Neal Stephenson, the hacker Hemingway (Newsweek) -- acclaimed novelist, pragmatist, seer, nerd-friendly philosopher, and nationally bestselling author of groundbreaking literary works (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, etc., etc.) -- the word is well worth hearing. Mostly well-reasoned examination and partial rant, Stephenson's In the Beginning... was the Command Line is a thoughtful, irreverent, hilarious treatise on the cyber-culture past and present; on operating system tyrannies and downloaded popular revolutions; on the Internet, Disney World, Big Bangs, not to mention the meaning of life itself.
Paperback
Publication Date: 09/11/1999
- ISBN:
- 9780380815937
- 9780380815937
- Category:
- Humour collections & anthologies
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 09-11-1999
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Dimensions (mm):
- 203.2x133.35x9.14mm
- Weight:
- 0.12kg
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