Ars Electronica Festival · 2000
In the Beginning was the Command Line (Excerpts)
🏆 Golden Nica · Prix Ars Electronica 2000
Neal Stephenson's “In the Beginning was the Command Line (Excerpts)” was honoured with the Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica 2000, category Net Based Art.
Computers do arithmetic on bits of information. Humans construe the bits as meaningful symbols. But this distinction is now being blurred, or at least complicated, by the advent of modern operating systems that use, and frequently abuse, the power of metaphor to make computers accessible to a larger audience ...
About Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson (USA) is the author of *Snow Crash*, *The Diamond Age*, *Zodiac* and *Crypotonomicon*. Born on Halloween 1959 in Fort Meade, Maryland - home of the National Security Agency he grew up in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and Ames, Iowa, before…
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