Life in code : a personal history of technology
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New York : MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
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First edition.
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viii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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New York : MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
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First edition.
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"The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal Close to the Machine. 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 Life in Code 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. Life in Code is essential to our understanding of the last twenty years--and the next twenty."--Jacket.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Ullman, E. (2017). Life in code: a personal history of technology (First edition.). MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ullman, Ellen. 2017. Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology. MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ullman, Ellen. Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

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Ullman, Ellen. Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology First edition., MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

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