In the Beginning...Was the Command Line

By: Neal Stephenson

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Paperback | 11 August 2023

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160 Pages

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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.

Industry Reviews

"A powerful voice of the cyber age."--"USA Today"Stephenson is a literary visionary of the technological future."--"Seattle Weekly"In the network world of the silicon samurai Stephenson is a big-time."--"Cleveland Plain Dealer

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