Clive Thompson

Coders (eBook, ePUB)

Who They Are, What They Think and How They Are Changing Our World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From revolution on Twitter to romance on Tinder, we live in a world constructed of code - and coders are the ones who built it for us.

In Coders, acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson offers an illuminating reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers, asking who they are, how they think, and what should give us pause. Along the way, Thompson ponders the morality and politics of code, including its implications for civic life and the economy, and unpacks the surprising history of the field, beginning with the first coders - brilliant and pioneering women, who were later written out of history. To understand the world today, we need to understand code and its consequences. With Coders, Thompson offers a crucial insight into the heart of the machine.

'By breaking down what the actual world of coding looks like . . . [Thompson] removes the mystery and brings it into the legible world for the rest of us to debate.'
New York Times

'Masterful . . . [Thompson] illuminates both the fascinating coders and the bewildering technological forces that are transforming the world in which we live.'
David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529019018
• Artikelnr.: 56165696

Autorenporträt

Clive Thompson is a longtime contributing writer for the New York Times magazine and a monthly columnist for Wired. He is the author of Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter
1: The Software Update That Changed Reality Chapter
2: The Four Waves of Coders Chapter
3: Constant Frustration and Bursts of Joy Chapter
4: Among the INTJs Chapter
5: The Cult of Efficiency Chapter
6: 10X, Rock Stars and the Myth of Meritocracy Chapter
7: The ENAIC Girls Vanish Chapter
8: Hackers, Crackers, and Freedom Fighters Chapter
9: Cucumbers, Skynet, and Rise of the AI Chapter
10: Scale, Trolls, and Big Tech Chapter
11: Blue
collar Coding Acknowledgements
i: Acknowledgements Section
ii: Notes Index
iii: Index

Rezensionen

Fascinating. Thompson is an excellent writer and his subjects are themselves gripping... Many books have covered this territory, but Coders is bang up to date in a fast-moving world... Perhaps [coders will] give it to loved ones, with a note attached: "Read this, that's me!" Nature