The Best of Technology Writing (Best Technology Writing) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0472033271 ISBN 13: 9780472033270

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2008

Synopsis

No one covers technology with more insight or panache than Clive Thompson. I can't imagine anyone better qualified to curate this fascinating series.---Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired magazine and author of The Long Tail"Editor Clive Thompson suggests we are in a ‘golden age of technology journalism.' Reading this collection, one suspects he is right---it sparkles with beautifully written narratives not only about what technology can do for us but what it does to us as people, to our ways of thinking about ourselves, our relationships, and how we envisage our world."---Sherry Turkle, Director, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Best of Technology Writing 2008 proves that technology writing is a bona fide literary genre with some of the most stylish, compelling, and just plain readable work in journalism today. The third volume in this annual series, The Best of Technology Writing 2008 covers a fascinating mix of topics---from a...

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Product Description:

The Best of Technology Writing 2008 proves that technology writing is a bona fide literary genre with some of the most stylish, compelling, and just plain readable work in journalism today. The third volume in this annual series, ""The Best of Technology Writing 2008"" covers a fascinating mix of topics - from a molecular gastronomist's recipe for the perfect gin and tonic; to 'the Mechanism,' an ancient Greek artifact that might be the world's first laptop computer; to the new generation gap caused by parents' and kids' dramatically different ideas about privacy online.

About the Author:

One of the world's most acclaimed and accomplished science and technology journalists, Clive Thompson writes regularly for the New York Times Magazine, Wired, New York Magazine, and other publications. He also runs the wildly popular tech-culture blog collisiondetection.net.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0472033271
• ISBN 13: 9780472033270
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Thompson K.Clive