The Seductive Computer; Acknowledgments; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Part I:The Joy of Programming; Part II:The Way of the Seducer; Part III:Pieces of Resistance; Part IV:The End of the Affair; Glossary; Index
Summary
IT systems explode budget estimates, bust production deadlines by years, and then fail to work properly. Why this IT-system crisis? Poor programmers? Inadequate project management? No. ""The Seductive Computer"" argues that the fundamental nature of programming technology itself is the real culprit; it promises perfection but can only deliver emergent chaos. It is also an insidiously compelling technology, peculiarly male oriented. IT systems, an unavoidable and increasing reality in all our lives, are something new to man - large-scale discrete complexity. ""The Seductive Computer"" explains
