| Description |
260 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Clive Thompson -- Doctor Delicious / Ted Allen -- Say everything / Emily Nussbaum -- The pedal-to-the-metal, totally illegal, cross-country sprint for glory / Charles Graeber -- The polarization of extremes / Cass R. Sunstein -- Fragmentary knowledge / John Seabrook -- The life of the Chinese gold farmer / Julian Dibbell -- How your creepy ex-co-workers will kill Facebook / Cory Doctorow -- The meteor farmer / Ben Paynter -- Breaking D-wave / Alex Hutchinson -- Your DNA decoded / Thomas Goetz -- The autumn of the multitaskers / Walter Kirn -- The brain on the stand / Jeffrey Rosen -- Twilight of the books / Caleb Crain -- These images document an atrocity / Robin Mejia -- The prophet of garbage / Michael Behar -- The (Josh) Marshall plan / David Glenn -- About the contributors -- Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
The Best of Technology Writing 2008 proves that technology writing is a bona fide literary genre with some of the most stylish, compelling, and just plain readable work in journalism today. The third volume in this annual series, The Best of Technology Writing 2008 covers a fascinating mix of topics---from a molecular gastronomist's recipe for the perfect gin and tonic; to "the Mechanism," an ancient Greek artifact that might be the world's first laptop computer; to social media, privacy, and what is possibly the biggest generation gap since rock 'n' roll |
| Notes |
"ISSN: 1938-7113"--T.p. verso |
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MODE OF ACCESS: World Wide Web: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.5283331.0003.001; HTML display |
| Subject |
Technical writing.
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Technology -- Popular works.
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| Author |
Thompson, K. C. (Kenneth Clive), 1944-
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| LC no. |
2009275849 |
| ISSN |
1938-7113 |
| ISBN |
0472033271 |
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9780472033270 |
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