Description
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.
Author: Neal Stephenson
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 11/09/1999
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.34w x 0.44d
ISBN13: 9780380815937
ISBN10: 0380815931
BISAC Categories:
- Computers | Operating Systems | Linux
- Computers | Social Aspects
- Computers | Operating Systems | UNIX