Hackers: Heroes Of The Computer Revolution
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Before the internet reshaped civilization, a renegade brotherhood of obsessive programmers, MIT mavericks, and garage-dwelling visionaries were quietly rewriting the rules of what machines — and human ingenuity — could do. Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution chronicles the definitive saga of these brilliant, eccentric pioneers, tracing the arc of the hacker ethic from the hallowed halls of MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club in the 1950s through the birth of the personal computer in Silicon Valley, presenting a panoramic and deeply human account of the minds who built the digital world from scratch. Levy writes with the narrative drive of a thriller and the analytical precision of a cultural historian, weaving together portraits of legendary figures such as Richard Stallman, Bill Gates, and Steve Wozniak to illustrate how a shared philosophy — that information should be free and that computers are instruments of liberation — collided with the rising tide of commercial software and intellectual property. This landmark work of technology journalism argues that the hacker ethic was not merely a programmer's creed but a revolutionary worldview, one whose tensions with corporate power remain urgently unresolved. Will the idealism of the original hackers survive in an age of trillion-dollar tech empires, or was it always destined to be a beautiful, fleeting spark?
Author: Steven Levy
Format: Paperback
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Before the internet reshaped civilization, a renegade brotherhood of obsessive programmers, MIT mavericks, and garage-dwelling visionaries were quietly rewriting the rules of what machines — and human ingenuity — could do. Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution chronicles the definitive saga of these brilliant, eccentric pioneers, tracing the arc of the hacker ethic from the hallowed halls of MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club in the 1950s through the birth of the personal computer in Silicon Valley, presenting a panoramic and deeply human account of the minds who built the digital world from scratch. Levy writes with the narrative drive of a thriller and the analytical precision of a cultural historian, weaving together portraits of legendary figures such as Richard Stallman, Bill Gates, and Steve Wozniak to illustrate how a shared philosophy — that information should be free and that computers are instruments of liberation — collided with the rising tide of commercial software and intellectual property. This landmark work of technology journalism argues that the hacker ethic was not merely a programmer's creed but a revolutionary worldview, one whose tensions with corporate power remain urgently unresolved. Will the idealism of the original hackers survive in an age of trillion-dollar tech empires, or was it always destined to be a beautiful, fleeting spark?