Microserfs

Nombre de pages

384

ISBN

0060987049

Editeur

Harper Perennial

Date de publication

1996-06-01

Description

Microserfs is not about Microsoft--it's about programmers who are searching for lives. A hilarious but frighteningly real look at geek life in the '90's, Coupland's book manifests a peculiar sense of how technology affects the human race and how it will continue to affect all of us. Microserfs is the hilarious journal of Dan, an ex-Microsoft programmer who, with his coder comrades, is on a quest to find purpose in life. This isn't just fodder for techies. The thoughts and fears of the not-so-stereotypical characters are easy for any of us to relate to, and their witty conversations and quirky view of the world make this a surprisingly thought-provoking book. " ... just think about the way high-tech cultures purposefully protract out the adolescence of their employees well into their late 20s, if not their early 30s, " muses one programmer. "I mean, all those Nerf toys and free beverages! And the way tech firms won't even call work 'the office, ' but instead, 'the campus.' It's sick and evil."

Format

Broché

Auteur

Douglas Coupland