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

Stephenson, Neal

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0380815931 ISBN 13: 9780380815937

Casa editrice: William Morrow & Co, 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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L'autore:

Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author of the novels Reamde, Anathem, The System of the World, The Confusion, Quicksilver, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning . . . Was the Command Line. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: William Morrow & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0380815931
• ISBN 13: 9780380815937
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 151