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The Company We Keep

The Company We Keep

Grier, David Alan

Paperback

General Computers

ISBN10: 0769547648
ISBN13: 9780769547640
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 10 2012
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.62 Width: 7.01 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
In his new book, David Alan Grier tells the stories that technical papers omit. Moving beyond the stereotypes of nerds and social misfits, The Company We Keep explores the community of people who build, use, and govern modern computing technology. The essays are both insightful and intimate, showing the impact of technology and the human character behind it. This book examines the development of digital technology by describing how this technology affects the communities that build, adapt, govern, and dispose of it. Centering on Washington, DC, many of the essays use Washington not only as an example of a community but also as a metaphor for how computing technology has connected individuals more closely and more firmly to the centers of political power, economic power, social power, and cultural power. Based on the author's popular column The Known World in Computer magazine.

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