The best of technology writing 2008 / / Clive Thompson, editor.

The Best of Technology Writing 2008 proves that technology writing is a bona fide literary genre with some of the most stylish, compelling, and just plain readable work in journalism today. The third volume in this annual series, The Best of Technology Writing 2008 covers a fascinating mix of topics...

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Superior document:Best of Technology Writing
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Place / Publishing House:Ann Arbor, Michigan : : University of Michigan Press,, [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Best of Technology Writing.
Physical Description:1 online resource :; digital, HTML file(s).
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Clive Thompson
  • Doctor Delicious / Ted Allen
  • Say everything / Emily Nussbaum
  • The pedal-to-the-metal, totally illegal, cross-country sprint for glory / Charles Graeber
  • The polarization of extremes / Cass R. Sunstein
  • Fragmentary knowledge / John Seabrook
  • The life of the Chinese gold farmer / Julian Dibbell
  • How your creepy ex-co-workers will kill Facebook / Cory Doctorow
  • The meteor farmer / Ben Paynter
  • Breaking D-wave / Alex Hutchinson
  • Your DNA decoded / Thomas Goetz
  • The autumn of the multitaskers / Walter Kirn
  • The brain on the stand / Jeffrey Rosen
  • Twilight of the books / Caleb Crain
  • These images document an atrocity / Robin Mejia
  • The prophet of garbage / Michael Behar
  • The (Josh) Marshall plan / David Glenn
  • About the contributors
  • Acknowledgments.