亲近机器
Close to the Machine
Ellen Ullman · 初版 1997 年
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- 以非虚构文学笔法生动捕捉人与机器的交互
- 真实呈现八十年代软件开发者的职业生活回忆
- 带领读者重温初代互联网泡沫时期的怀旧风貌
这是一部坦诚记述软件工程师生活的作品，她在旧金山Multimedia Gulch的一间商住两用阁楼里经营着自己的计算机咨询业务。沉浸在信息、算法和网络的抽象世界中，她既想屈服于程序员世界的诱惑——在那里，像她这样的“奇特逻辑造梦者”生活在“紧贴机器”的境地；但她又敏锐地意识到，肉体与灵魂绝非机械：欲望、爱以及面对面交流的需求，无法轻易融入代码行或网络浏览器里的点击。在每一个转折点，她都发现自己能
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…数字空间——从打孔卡到触摸屏。我一直在找能捕捉到这种二元对立的书。埃伦·乌尔曼（Ellen Ullman）是少数几个能轻易想到的、并非纯面向极客的小说作家之一（《Close to the Machine》[0]）。《信息简史》（The Information）[1] 的某些部分也是（比如图灵机构建，诸如此类……）。《代码之美》（Beautiful Code）[2] 又是另一本，不过稍微偏技术了一点……有朋友建议我直接找计算机指令…
…digital space — from punchcards to touch screens. I'm looking for books that capture that dichotomy. Ellen Ullman is one of the few non-explicitly geek-facing fiction writers that easily comes to mind (Close to the Machine [0]). As are parts of The Information [1] (Turing machine construction, for ex ...). Beautiful Code [2] is yet another, but skewing a bit too technical ... A friend recommended grabbing computer instruction…
> 你还会推荐哪些类似的书？埃伦·乌尔曼的《Close to the Machine》和道格拉斯·库普兰的《微奴》（Microserfs）在我记忆里差不多占着同一个生态位。
> What other similar books would you recommend? "Close to the Machine" by Ellen Ullman and "Microserfs" by Douglas Coupland occupy roughly the same space in my memory.
这篇文章的作者埃伦·乌尔曼在 1997 年写过一本我认为（IMHO）非常棒的书，叫《Close to the Machine》；我不确定，但我记得书里的部分内容是基于早年在 Salon.com 上发表的一系列随笔。这不仅是一场让人彻底享受的、重返最初互联网泡沫时期的怀旧之旅，…
The author of this piece, Ellen Ullman, wrote a really great book (IMHO) called "Close to the Machine" back in 1997; I'm not sure, but I think some of the book was based on a series of (very early) Salon.com essays. Besides being a thoroughly enjoyable nostalgia trip back to the original dotcom bubble,…
…参与。《DOOM启世录》（Masters of Doom），大卫·库什纳著，记录了 id Software 及其创始人的历史。绝对是一本很有意思的书，尤其是 id 让 Gwar 乐队出现在微软现场的那段。《Close to the Machine》，埃伦·乌尔曼著，是一位 80 年代软件开发者的回忆录。我得找时间重读一遍，确实挺好看的。我时不时会想起其中一段，作者讲述…
…involvements. "Masters of Doom" by David Kushner chronicles the history of id Software and its creators. It's an entertaining book for sure, especially the part where id has Gwar show up at Microsoft. "Close to the Machine" by Ellen Ullman is the memoir of a software developer in the 80s. I need to read this one again, but it was enjoyable. I think about one part in particular from time to time where the author recounts…
我大学时在学 CS 的同时也学了英语专业，当时特别迷非虚构写作（creative nonfiction）。我记得特别喜欢乌尔曼的《Close to the Machine》，可能值得一读。
I studied English alongside CS and was really into the creative nonfiction genre in my university days. I remember really enjoying "Close to the Machine" by Ullman, might be worth checking out.
这种事情在自动化和计算机化过程中（很遗憾）是常见（且由来已久）的问题。（要想生动了解这一现象，可以看看埃伦·乌尔曼的小说《Close to the Machine》。）随着高管和分析师越来越拿“AI”狂热作为借口，在大体上推进自动化和计算机化（以及裁员），甚至撇开真正的 AI 不谈，出现这种情况也并不奇怪…
Things like this are (sadly) common (and age-old) problems with automation and computerization. (For a vivid account of this phenomenon, check out the novel _Close to the Machine_, by Ellen Ullman.) As executives and analysts increasingly use the "AI" craze to push automation and computerization (and layoffs) generally, even aside from AI proper, it should not be surprising that…