The Soul of a New Machine Concepts

Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences

by Edward Tenner · 1 Sep 1997

, each member producing a small part of an increasingly bulky and complex whole. There is no software equivalent of Tracy Kidder's hardware odyssey, The Soul of a New Machine. There is, however, an excellent contrast in Lauren Ruth Wiener's Digital Woes, the best general-interest explanation to date of why and how computer

Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything

by Stephen Baker · 17 Feb 2011 · 238pp · 77,730 words

World of Trivia Buffs, Villard Books, 2006 Johnson, Steven, Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life, Scribner, 2004 Kidder, Tracy, The Soul of a New Machine, Little, Brown and Co., 1981 Klingberg, Torel, The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory, Oxford University Press, 2009 Lanier, Jaron, You

Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World

by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott · 9 May 2016 · 515pp · 126,820 words

Honeywell). In the 1970s and 1980s, minicomputers exploded onto the scene. Tracy Kidder captured the rise of Data General in his 1981 best seller The Soul of a New Machine. Like mainframe companies, most of these firms exited the business or disappeared. Who remembers Digital Equipment Corporation, Prime Computer, Wang, Datapoint, or the minicomputers of

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Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), 42, 59, 262 Society of European Stage Authors and Composers (SESAC), 229 Song, Dawn, 288 Sony Music Entertainment, 229, 230 Soul of a New Machine, The (Kidder), 150 Spain, Agora Voting, 218–19 Spam, 34, 39, 255, 321n Spotify, 88, 229, 230, 239, 319n Srinivasan, Balaji, 178–79 Stakeholders, 262

Revolution in the Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made

by Andy Hertzfeld · 19 Nov 2011

to write our story for us.” The previous year, a development team at Data General was immortalized by Tracy Kidder’s best-selling book, The Soul of a New Machine, about the ups and downs of developing a new minicomputer. Now it seemed that Mike Moritz was going to do something similar for the Mac

Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

by George Gilder · 16 Jul 2018 · 332pp · 93,672 words

Birth and Death of Computer Classes,” Communications of the ACM. 51 (1), January 2008: 86–94. 5. Described by Tracy Kidder in his masterpiece, The Soul of a New Machine (Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1981). No one has captured so vividly the saga of designing new computers and software. 6. Urs Hölzle, speech to the

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(New York: Penguin Books, 2017). Kessler, Andy. How We Got Here: A Silicon Valley and Wall Street Primer (Escape Velocity Press, 2004). Kidder, Tracy. The Soul of a New Machine (Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1981). Kurzweil, Ray. How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed (New York: Penguin Books, 2012). Langville, Amy

Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

by Claire L. Evans · 6 Mar 2018 · 371pp · 93,570 words

, Plowing the Dark (New York: Picador, 2001), 307. “Another caver who was with”: Jerz, “Somewhere Nearby Is Colossal Cave.” “harrowing of Hell”: Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine (New York: Back Bay Books, 1981), 88. By the time she encountered: www.legacy.com/obituaries/dispatch/obituary.aspx?n=john-preston-wilcox&pid=145049233

Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight

by David A. Mindell · 3 Apr 2008 · 377pp · 21,687 words

drama and interest of spaceflight and the social importance of computers. Tracy Kidder’s 1981 book about a group of engineers building a computer, The Soul of a New Machine, had the ironic result that the computer he focused on, a minor commercial machine, was forgotten, while his book is long remembered. This story has

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–160 (see also use of term, 145–146 Automation) user errors and, 160 Basic language and, 149 SOLARIUM, 151 Battin and, 145–146, 151, 158 Soul of a New Machine, The (Kidder), 14 budget for, 146 Soulé, Hartley, 27 bugs and, 150, 171–172, 175–176, 232–233 Sound barrier, 44 building programs and, 151

Game Over Press Start to Continue

by David Sheff and Andy Eddy · 1 Jan 1993 · 500pp · 156,079 words

.), Hanafuda: The Flower Card Game (Tokyo: Nichibo Shuppan-sho, 1970). Katz, Donald R., “The New Generation Gap,” Esquire, February 1990: 49–50. Kidder, Tracy, The Soul of a New Machine (Boston: Little, Brown, 1981). “Less Fun, Few Games? Toy Industry Analyst Is Bearish on Nintendo,” Barron’s, December 3, 1990: 16–63. Levine, David, “Special

Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America

by Giles Slade · 14 Apr 2006 · 384pp · 89,250 words

, To Engineer Is Human, p. 192. 27. Victor J.Papanek,The Green Imperative (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1995), p. 175. 28. Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine (Boston: Little, Brown, 1981), p. 59. Petroski, To Engineer Is Human, p. 192. 29. Ceruzzi,History of Modern Computing, p. 215.Martin,The Wired Society

Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation

by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber · 29 Oct 2024 · 292pp · 106,826 words

Riordan, Michael, Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age. London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998. Kidder, Tracy. The Soul of a New Machine. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2011. Lécuyer, Christophe. Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006