Bitwise: A Life in Code
by: David Auerbach
ISBN-10: 1101871296
ISBN-13: 9781101871294
Released: 2018-08-28
Pages: 304
Book Description
An exhilarating,elegant memoir and a significant polemic on how computers and algorithms shape our understanding of the world and of who we are
Bitwise is a wondrous ode to the computer lanВguages and codes that captured technologist David Auerbach’s imagination. With a philosoВpher’s sense of inquiry,Auerbach recounts his childhood spent drawing ferns with the proВgramming language Logo on the Apple IIe,his adventures in early text-based video games,his education as an engineer,and his contribuВtions to instant messaging technology develВoped for Microsoft and the servers powering Google’s data stores. A lifelong student of the systems that shape our lives—from the psyВchiatric taxonomy of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual to how Facebook tracks and profiles its users—Auerbach reflects on how he has experienced the algorithms that taxonomize human speech,knowledge,and behavior and that compel us to do the same.
Into this exquisitely crafted,wide-ranging memoir of a life spent with code,Auerbach has woven an eye-opening and searing examinaВtion of the inescapable ways in which algoВrithms have both standardized and coarsened our lives. As we engineer ever more intricate technology to translate our experiences and narrow the gap that divides us from the maВchine,Auerbach argues,we willingly erase our nuances and our idiosyncrasies—precisely the things that make us human.
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