In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
Verlag | HarperCollins US |
Auflage | 1999 |
Seiten | 160 |
Gewicht | 130 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 0380815931 |
EAN | 9780380815937 |
Bestell-Nr | 38081593EA |
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.