num_pages: 160
description: This is the Word -- one man's word certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the one man is Neal Stephenson the hacker Hemingway (Newsweek) -- acclaimed novelist pragmatist seer nerd-friendly philosopher and nationally bestselling author of groundbreaking literary works (Snow Crash Cryptonomicon etc. etc.) -- the word is well worth hearing. Mostly well-reasoned examination and partial rant Stephenson's In the Beginning... was the Command Line is a thoughtful irreverent hilarious treatise on the cyber-culture past and present; on operating system tyrannies and downloaded popular revolutions; on the Internet Disney World Big Bangs not to mention the meaning of life itself.
language: English
title: In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
publisher: William Morrow