{"product_id":"bitwise-a-life-in-code-paperback","title":"Bitwise: A Life in Code - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Auerbach\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn exhilarating, elegant memoir and a significant polemic on how computers and algorithms shape our understanding of the world and of who we are \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBitwise \u003c\/i\u003eis a wondrous ode to the computer lan­guages and codes that captured technologist David Auerbach's imagination. With a philoso­pher's sense of inquiry, Auerbach recounts his childhood spent drawing ferns with the pro­gramming language Logo on the Apple IIe, his adventures in early text-based video games, his education as an engineer, and his contribu­tions to instant messaging technology devel­oped for Microsoft and the servers powering Google's data stores. A lifelong student of the systems that shape our lives--from the psy­chiatric taxonomy of the \u003ci\u003eDiagnostic and Statistical Manual \u003c\/i\u003eto 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInto this exquisitely crafted, wide-ranging memoir of a life spent with code, Auerbach has woven an eye-opening and searing examina­tion of the inescapable ways in which algo­rithms 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 ma­chine, Auerbach argues, we willingly erase our nuances and our idiosyncrasies--precisely the things that make us human.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDAVID AUERBACH\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and software engineer who has worked for Google and Microsoft. His writing has ap­peared in \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement, MIT Technology Review, The Nation, The Daily Beast, n+1, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, among many other publications. He has lectured around the world on technology, literature, philosophy, and stupidity. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 23, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180679512313,"sku":"9781101972144","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/NGthZFRUWUN1ZUZBb21uM2dCRE15dz09.webp?v=1767744309","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/bitwise-a-life-in-code-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}