Ullman, Ellen

Life in Code

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ISBN 13:: 9781250181695
author:: Ullman, Ellen
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Picador USA
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2018
Pages:: 320
Dimensions:: 20.07 x 12.7 x 2.29 centimetres
Genre:: Biography, Science & Technology, Fiction & Literature,
Condition:: New
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Ellen Ullman's personal history of technology is a story of transformation and reckoning. Over the last twenty years, the world of technology has undergone a profound shift, from the rise of the internet to the development of artificial intelligence. Through it all, Ullman has lived and worked at the heart of this culture, and in Life in Code, she recounts the changes it has wrought with a unique and expert perspective. Ullman's journey began in the early 1970s, when she moved to San Francisco and became a computer programmer. She was part of a small, idealistic group that aspired to genuinely change the world. Two decades later, Ullman's story is one of digital technology's loss of innocence as it entered the cultural mainstream. It is a personal reckoning with all that has changed, and so much that hasn't. Life in Code is a valuable text for understanding the last twenty years - and the next twenty.

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