From the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicor comes a hilarious commentary on computer operating systems and what they reveal about our culture. 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..
Mostly well-reasoned examination and partial rant, Stephenson\'s In the Beginning...
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.
This is the Word -- one man\'s word, certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. (Stephenson) is the hacker Hemingway.--Newsweek.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicor comes a hilarious commentary on computer operating systems and what they reveal about our culture
