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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872863323 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100381670 02 0872863328 03 9780872863323 15 9780872863323 BC 1 A01 Ullman, Ellen Ellen Ullman <p> <b>Ellen Ullman</b> has worked as a software engineer and consultant since 1978, Her writing has been published in <i>Resisting the Virtual Life</i>, <i>Wired Woman</i>, and in <i>Harper's Magazine</i>. She is a commenter on National Public Radio’s "All Things Considered."</p> 01 eng 189 00 189 03 03 0 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Biography/Memoir 24 Internet CL Hierarchy California Writers 24 Internet CL Hierarchy San Francisco Literature & History 01 If there is such a thing as a typical computer programmer, Ellen Ullman is not it. She's female, a former communist, bisexual, old enough to be a twentysomething's mom, and not a nerd. She runs her own computer-consulting business in San Francisco and in <i>Close to the Machine</i> explores a world in which "the real world and its uses no longer matter." This memoir examines the relationship between human and machine, between material and cyberworlds and reminds us that the body and soul exist before and after any machine. The wit Ullman brings to her National Public Radio commentaries shines through in the prose. 02 If there is such a thing as a typical computer programmer, Ellen Ullman is not it. She's female, a former communist, bisexual, old enough to be a twentysomething's mom, and not a nerd. She runs her own computer-consulting business in San Francisco... 08 “There are no crazed hackers here; no zen-master software moguls; no media stereotypes; just a wonderfully written book about Ullman’s days and nights at the heart of the new machine. I recommend it with unfettered enthusiasm.” Jon Carroll, San Francisco Chronicle 08 “Her talent enables readers to explore intimately, and without forced profundity, one of the biggest questions of our time: What it is about numerical, seemingly inhuman world of computing that holds such power, wholly human allure.” Brad Wieners, editor, Wired Books 08 “Computer programmers are remaking the world. Here is ground truth about that world-making and brilliant critique of it. The reader vibrates between delight and alarm on every page.” Stewart Brand 08 “This memoir of life in the electronic world is reckoning, a warning, a seduction. It is also very funny.” Rebecca Brown 08 “This book is a masterpiece, an exquisitely melancholy cry from a body disappearing into the machine. It is a wrenching swan-song for human beings. I have never read anything like it because nothing like it could have been written before. Here is the perfect way to say goodbye to the millennium.” Andrei Codrescu 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100381670/images/87286100381670L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100381670/images/87286100381670S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100381670 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19971101 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 30 19971101 01 02 12.95 USD