Ratings
Rated: 7 times. Average rating 4.14
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.
Books by Neal Stephenson:
- Snow Crash (2000)
- Cryptonomicon (2002)
- Anathem (2008)
- Quicksilver (2004)
- The Confusion (2004)
- Reamde (2011)
- Opium (2007)
- The Cobweb (2005)
- The Diamond Age (2000)
- Odalisque (2006)
- The System of the World (2005)
- The Mongoliad (2013)
- In the Beginning...was the Command Line (1999)
- Quicksilver LTD (2004)
