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.
Biografie
Neal Stephenson, geb. 1959 in Fort Meade, Maryland erhielt bei der Ars Electronica 2000 für sein bisheriges Gesamtwerk die Goldene Nica. Seit seinem frühen Roman 'Snow Crash' gilt er als eines der größten Genies der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur.
