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1) Microserfs
Author
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
They are Microserfs-six code-crunching computer whizzes who spend upward of sixteen hours a day "coding" and eating "flat" foods (food which, like Kraft singles, can be passed underneath closed doors) as they fearfully scan company e-mail to learn whether the great Bill is going to "flame" one of them. But now there's a chance to become innovators instead of cogs in the gargantuan Microsoft machine. The intrepid Microserfs are striking out on their...
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
On a snowy Friday night in 1979, just hours after making love for the first time, Richard's girlfriend, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil, falls into a coma. Nine months later she gives birth to their daughter, Megan. As Karen sleeps through the next seventeen years, Richard and their circle of friends reside in an emotional purgatory, passing through a variety of careers-modeling, film special effects, medicine, demolition-before finally reuniting...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1988, a catastrophic episode of teen violence shatters a suburban community. Hey Nostradamus follows the aftermath in various voices across two decades: the teenage victims whose ordinary preoccupations with sex and spirituality will never evolve past that moment; the parents whose exposure to their children's underground world threatens their deepest convictions; and those who come to know the survivors only later in life, unable to fully realize...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Bit Rot, a new collection from Douglas Coupland that explores the different ways 20th-century notions of the future are being shredded, is a gem of the digital age. Reading Bit Rot feels a lot like bingeing on Netflix ... you can't stop with just one. 'Bit rot' is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose. As Coupland writes, 'Bit rot also describes the way my brain has been feeling...
Author
Series
Writers in residence volume number 3
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
Alcatel-Lucent is a company you've most likely never heard of. It's only the 461st largest company on earth as of this printing, but were it to vanish tomorrow, our modern world would immediately be the worse for its absence, with global communications severely crippled. Alcatel-Lucent helped to create and helps to continue the existence of the Cloud. The company played a crucial role in designing, building and maintaining the Internet. This book...
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