He owns neither a dog nor a cat. If you want something a bit on the light side, try Open Sources . Despite some strange historical howlers in several essays, this is well worth the couple of hours you'll put into reading it. When I first saw a computer, over 40 years ago, it was an enormous monstros- ity. Today every other person on an airplane is working on a notebook, and PalmPilots are as ubiquitous as their price permits.
Mobility is here.
My guess is that ACM Press and Addison-Wesley get the blame for this. The articles have been simply transferred to the anthology. There is a rich variety of type styles. The net result is disruptive to any serious reader. But I'm certain that production was cheap.