| Title | : | In the Beginning...Was the Command Line |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Neal Stephenson |
| Release | : | 2009-10-13 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Operating Systems, Books, Computers & Internet, Software, Communications & Media, Computers, Programming, Humor, Nonfiction, Social Science, History |
| Size | : | 1721828 |
| 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. |
