It seems like a lot, but it’s very manageable. In that way, it’s very much unlike any other book on technology that I’ve read recently, which is to say that while you get some history on coding, that history is only there to explain how coders came to be and by what means they came into their own, with the tools and more importantly the access to those tools that helped create them, which in turn helped them create what the modern digital world has become. But this book has an unexpected narrative about the moral obligations and discussions around code, decision-makers, and the future. The first part of the book is really an anthropological survey into the backgrounds and careers of some select coders. How coders work, why they think the way they do, what it is they actually do, and even their reflections on what they’ve done. From the early coders of the most primitive computers to today’s venture capital wet dreams, Clive Thompson’s book Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World peels back the layers on just who is behind the keyboard of the code that is impacting our lives.
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