Coders: Who They Are, What They Think and How They Are Changing Our World

Thompson, Clive

ISBN 10: 1529018986 / ISBN 13: 9781529018981

Published by Picador, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Coders: Who They Are, What They Think and How They Are Changing Our World
• Publisher: Picador
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1529018986
• ISBN 13: 9781529018981
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

'Masterful . . . [Thompson] illuminates both the fascinating coders and the bewildering technological forces that are transforming the world in which we live.' David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z

Facebook’s algorithms shaping the news. Uber’s cars flocking the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of computer code. Coders – software programmers – are the people who built it for us. And yet their worlds and minds are little known to outsiders.

In Coders, Wired columnist Clive Thompson presents a brilliantly original anthropological reckoning with the most influential tribe in today’s world, interrogating who they are, how they think, what they value, what qualifies as greatness in their world, and what should give us pause.

One of the most prominent journalists writing on technology today, Clive Thompson takes us into the minds of coders, the most quietly influential people on the planet, in a journey into the heart of the machine – and the men and women who made it.

About the Author

Clive Thompson is a longtime contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and a columnist for Wired. He is the author of Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better.