In the Beginning...was the Command Line
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I found this to be an amusing yet insightful look into the state of consumer-level computers. Neal Stephenson makes many interesting points about the use of metaphors in computing (and elsewhere), and I particularly enjoyed his examination of what he termed "metaphor shear".
A slight caveat: I am something of an aspiring computer geek and I really like the writings of Neal Stephenson anyway, so perhaps I'm a bit biased.
A slight caveat: I am something of an aspiring computer geek and I really like the writings of Neal Stephenson anyway, so perhaps I'm a bit biased.