In the Beginning...was the Command Line

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.

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Other Editions

• In the Beginning...was the Command LineHarper Perennial1999-11-09
• In the beginning ...was the command lineAvon Books1999-01-01
• In the Beginning...Was the Command LineLibrary BindingTandem Library1999-11-01
• Die Diktatur des schönen Scheins.PaperbackGoldmann2002-09-01
• En el principio... fue la línea de comandosPrint bookTraficantes de Sueños2003-01-01
• In the Beginning...Was the Command LineHarperCollins Publishers2008-01-01