Close to the Machine
technophilia and its discontents
$27.16
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2025
Summary
Close to the Machine: A Programmer’s Intimate Chronicle of the Dawn of the Digital Age
Ellen Ullman’s humane, insightful, and beautifully written memoir is a cult classic exploring the ever-complicating intersections between people and technology. Writing from 1990s San Francisco, where she ran a programming business that served everyone from credit card companies to AIDS clinics, she describes the strange ecstasies of programming and the even stranger social dynamics of the emergin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781805331957 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1805331957 |
| Series: | Pushkin Press Classics |
| Author: | Ellen Ullman, Jaron Lanier |
| Publisher: | Pushkin Press |
| Imprint: | Pushkin Press Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
About The Author
Ellen Ullman
Ellen Ullman’s Close to the Machine, a memoir of her time as a software engineer during the early years of the internet revolution, became a cult classic and established her as a writer of considerable talent; with her second book, The Bug, she became an acclaimed novelist; By Blood, her second novel, is also published by Pushkin Press. She lives in San Francisco.
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