Devil in the Stack

A Coding Odyssey

AvAndrew Smith

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Computer code was supposed to make the world a better place. When Andrew Smith began to suspect the opposite was happening, he asked himself why. Was it the coders? Or was there something about code itself, about the very way we compute, that could be intensifying rather than relieving our problems? To find out he realized he would need to dive headfirst into the machine by becoming a coder himself - in middle age, with no prior experience.Devil in the Stack describes what quickly became the strangest and most astonishing assignment of the Moondust author's already colourful career, propelling him to the very heart of what it means to be human; to the cutting edge of philosophy, psychology, music, history and neuroscience, and ultimately the weird noir Neverland of Silicon Valley. By turns revelatory, funny, inspiring and unsettling, this is an essential book for our time, indispensable to anyone hoping to understand the moment we're in.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-11
Mått:129 x 198 x 36 mm
Vikt:400 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:464
Förlag:Atlantic Books
ISBN:9781804710999

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Andrew Smith has worked as a critic and feature writer for the Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Observer and The Face, and has penned documentaries for the BBC. He is the author of the internationally bestselling book Moondust, about the nine remaining men who walked on the moon between 1969 and 1972, and Totally Wired. He was raised in the UK and currently lives in California.

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Much of his absorbing book asks serious questions about the direction in which the computer industry and tech giants such as Google and Meta are taking us

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Prologue 0: If Prologue 1: Then 1: Revenge of the SpaghettiOs 2: Holy Grail 3: PyLadies and Code Freaks 4: Minutely Organized Particulars 5: The Real Moriarty 6: The New Mind Readers 7: Theories of Memory 8: Hilarity Ensues 9: Catch 32 10: A Kind of Gentleness 11: The Gun on the Mantelpiece 12: Code Rush 13: Enter the Frankenalgorithm 14: Algorave? 15: A Codemy of Errors 16: Do Algos Dream of Numeric Sheep?: An AI Suite 17: Apologies to Richard Feynman 18: A Cloud Lifts 19: Strange Loops and Abstractions - The Devil in the Stack