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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.
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In the Beginning...Was the Command Line, Neal Stephenson
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- Released
- 1999
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- Title
- In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Neal Stephenson
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Released
- 1999
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 160
- ISBN10
- 0380815931
- ISBN13
- 9780380815937
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, True Stories, Technology & Engineering, Computers & Internet, Science, Opinion Journalism & Essays, Technology, Knowledge
- Original title
- In the beginning ... was the command line
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- 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.