{"product_id":"life-in-code-a-personal-history-of-technology-paperback","title":"Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEllen Ullman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal \u003ci\u003eClose to the Machine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eLife in Code\u003c\/i\u003e she tells the continuing story of the changes it wrought with a unique, expert perspective. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Ellen 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 \u003ci\u003eClose to the Machine, \u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwenty 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. \u003ci\u003eLife in Code\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential text toward our understanding of the last twenty years--and the next twenty.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEllen Ullman\u003c\/b\u003e 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 two novels: \u003ci\u003eBy Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book; and \u003ci\u003eThe Bug\u003c\/i\u003e, a runner-up for the Pen\/Hemingway Award. Her memoir, \u003ci\u003eClose to the Machine\u003c\/i\u003e, about her life as a software engineer during the internet's first rise, became a cult classic. Her new book, \u003ci\u003eLife in Code: \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Personal History of Technology\u003c\/i\u003e, tells a continuing story of the technical world as she experienced it while living in its midst for more than two decades. She is based in San Francisco\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 07, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984015655213,"sku":"9781250181695","price":24.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/WHFtZlNnUU8xaUxTalN3VDNkV0pOZz09.webp?v=1776081401","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/life-in-code-a-personal-history-of-technology-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}