Coders: who they are, what they think and how they are changing the world

By:

Thompson, Clive

Publication details: Picador, 2019. London:Description: 436 p.; pb; 20 cmISBN:

9780735220560

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

005.1 THO

Summary: This is a brilliant and immersive anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers - where they come from, how they think, what makes for greatness in their world, and much more. You use software nearly every instant youre awake. And this may sound weirdly obvious, but every single one of those pieces of software was written by a programmer. Programmers are thus among the most quietly influential people on the planet. As we live in a world made of software, theyre the architects. The decisions they make guide our behaviour. When they make something newly easy to do, we do a lot more of it. If they make it hard to do something, we do less of it. If we want to understand how todays world works, we ought to understand something about coders. Who exactly are the people building todays world? What makes them tick? What type of personality is drawn to writing software? And perhaps most interestingly, what does it do to them? More and more, any serious engagement with the world demands an engagement with code and its consequences, and to understand code, we must understand coders.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-422) and index.

This is a brilliant and immersive anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers - where they come from, how they think, what makes for greatness in their world, and much more. You use software nearly every instant youre awake. And this may sound weirdly obvious, but every single one of those pieces of software was written by a programmer. Programmers are thus among the most quietly influential people on the planet. As we live in a world made of software, theyre the architects. The decisions they make guide our behaviour. When they make something newly easy to do, we do a lot more of it. If they make it hard to do something, we do less of it. If we want to understand how todays world works, we ought to understand something about coders. Who exactly are the people building todays world? What makes them tick? What type of personality is drawn to writing software? And perhaps most interestingly, what does it do to them? More and more, any serious engagement with the world demands an engagement with code and its consequences, and to understand code, we must understand coders.

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