Beschreibung:
Ellen Ullman's Close to the Machine, a memoir of her time as a software engineer during the early years of the internet revolution, became a cult classic and established her as a writer of considerable talent; with her second book, The Bug, she became an acclaimed and vital novelist; By Blood is her third. She lives in San Francisco.
Close to the Machine, Ellen Ullman's cult classic memoir of the world of computers in the 1980s and early 1990s is an insight into a world we rarely see up-close but which permeates all of our lives ever more deeply. Includes a new introduction by Jaron Lanier, author of You are Not a Gadget (Penguin).