In the Beginning...was the Command Line - Brossura

Stephenson, Neal

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0380815931 ISBN 13: 9780380815937

Casa editrice: William Morrow Paperbacks, 1999

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Neal Stephenson is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels, including Polostan, the first novel in the Bomb Light series. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Dalla quarta di copertina

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0380815931
• ISBN 13: 9780380815937
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 160
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