Life in code: a personal history of technology

Part one. The programming life --

Outside of time : reflections on the programming life --

Come in, CQ --

The dumbing down of programming : some thoughts on programming, knowing, and the nature of "easy" --

What we were afraid of as we feared Y2K --

Part two. The rise and first fall of the Internet --

The museum of me --

Fiber optic nights --

Off the high --

To catch a falling knife --

Part three. Life, artificial --

Programming the post-human : computer science redefines "life" --

Is Sadie the Cat a trick? --

Memory and megabytes --

Dining with robots --

Part four. Three stories about what we owe the past --

While I was away --

Close to the mainframe --

The party line --

Part five. The hand that writes the code --

Programming for the millions --

Boom two : a farewell.