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The Soul of a New Machine

Tracy Kidder

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#95 of 3,809 books · #7 in Science & Technology

Won the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1982) and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1982).

The Soul of a New Machine won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Tracy Kidder's story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market has become essential reading for understanding the history of the American tech industry. Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined the culture of the computer revolution. What has not changed is the feverish pace of the high-tech industry, the go-for-broke approach to business that has caused so many computer companies to win big (or go belly up), and the cult of pursuing mind-bending technological innovations. The Soul of a New Machine is an essential chapter in the history of the machine that revolutionized the world in the twentieth century.

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Publisher
Hachette UK
ISBN-13
9780316204552
Topics
Computer industry historyEngineering and innovationCorporate culture in tech
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