The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder audiobook

The Soul of A New Machine

By Tracy Kidder
Read by Ben Sullivan

Little, Brown & Company 9780316491976

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 1 Format: Library CD

  • ISBN: 9781478939597

Runtime: 9.05 Hours
Category: Nonfiction/Technology & Engineering
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction

Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Nonfiction

Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and 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.


"Fascinating...A surprisingly gripping account of people at work." --Wall Street Journal

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Fascinating…A surprisingly gripping account of people at work.” —Wall Street Journal
“Riveting…A well-paced story of corporate invention and intrigue…Compelling entertainment and much more.” —Washington Post Book World
“Kidder has endowed the tale with such pace, texture, and poetic implication that he has elevated it to a high level of narrative art.” —New York Times Book Review
“It has the ring of truth…For readers who would like to know what it takes to make a computer, how computers are organized, and who the people are who put them together.” —New York Review of Books
“Kidder has a good feel for people and, equally important here, the ability to make a computer’s internal workings relatively understandable to a nontechnical reader.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Ben Sullivan does a solid job narrating Kidder’s 1981 account of a team of engineers outside Boston who are designing a new computer…Here, Sullivan enlivens the sometimes arcane engineering disputes. He has a strong, pleasant voice, and his pacing is good, and his delivery clear…Kidder’s careful observations withstand the test of time.” —AudioFile
“Kidder’s 1981 volume was published when mini-supercomputers were still the stuff of science fiction. How the world has turned. Though technology has grown immeasurably since then, this volume still serves as an interesting history of the machine that conquered the world.” —Library Journal

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Author

Author Bio: Tracy Kidder

Author Bio: Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder is the acclaimed author of numerous books. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and many other literary prizes. He graduated from Harvard University and studied at the University of Iowa.

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Available Formats : Library CD
Category: Nonfiction/Technology & Engineering
Runtime: 9.05
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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