Coders : the making of a new tribe and the remaking of the world
"In Coders, acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson offers a brilliant anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers, in a book that asks who they are, how they think, and what should give us pause. Along the way, Thompson ponders the morality and politics of code, including its implications for civic life and the economy, and unpacks the surprising history of the field, beginning with the first code...