如今,日常生活的方方面面都渗透着计算机的代码。然而,普通人并不了解计算机编程的工作,也不清楚程序员正在悄悄地影响着整个社会。科技报道的记者Clive Thompson希望通过他的新书《Coders:The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World》来改变这一点。
'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.
作者简介
克莱夫·汤普森(Clive Thompson),科技记者,《纽约时报》撰稿人,《连线》专栏作家。
在担任科技记者之前,高中时期的Thompson曾是一名黑客,他自学了如何在早期的个人计算机上写代码,比如在Commodore 64上等。之前他还出过一本书《超乎想象的聪明:论科技如何改进我们的思维》(Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better),书中推翻了末日预言者所信奉的看法:新的技术工具正在腐蚀我们的大脑,Thompson则认为这些东西实际上提高了我们的认知能力。他在《Coders》中说到:“我想让一般人了解程序员,以及为什么他们会比较注重某方面的东西,他们的激情在哪里,他们的盲点又是什么。希望普通人可以更好地了解程序员为我们创造的这个数字世界。”
Clive Thompson (born 30 October 1968) is a Canadian freelance journalist, blogger, and science and technology writer.
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