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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents AUTH-11222635 "Lights Camera Action" is aWith a New Introduction by Jaron Lanier A Salon Best Book of the Year In 1997, the computer was still a relatively new tool a sleek and unforgiving machine that was beyond the grasp of most users. With intimate and unflinching detail, software engineer Ellen Ullman examines the strange ecstasy of being at the forefront of the predominantly male technological revolution, and the difficulty of translating the inherent messiness of human life into artful