The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, from the author of the seminal <i>Close to the Machine</i>.<br /><br />When Ellen Ullman moved to San Francisco and became a computer programmer in the late 1970s, she was joining an idealistic, exclusive, and almost exclusively male cadre that had dreams and aspirations to change the world. In 1997, she wrote<br /><i>Close to the Machine</i>, the now classic and still definitive account of life as a coder at the birth of what would be a sweeping technological, cultural, and financial revolution.<br /><br />The intervening twenty years has seen, among other things, the rise of the Internet, the ubiquity of once unimaginably powerful computers, and the thorough transformation of our economy and society—as Ullman’s clique of socially awkward West Coast geeks became our new elite, elevated for and insulated by a technical mastery that few could achieve.<br /><br />In <i>Life in Code</i>
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