Our civilization runs on software. Yet the art of creating it continues to be a dark mystery, even to the experts. To find out why it’s so hard to bend computers to our will, Scott Rosenberg spent three years following a team of maverick software developers—led by Lotus 1-2-3 creator Mitch Kapor—designing a novel personal information manager meant to challenge market leader Microsoft Outlook. Their story takes us through a maze of abrupt
dead ends and exhilarating breakthroughs as they wrestle not only with the abstraction of code, but with the unpredictability of human behavior— especially their own.
- ISBN10 1400082463
- ISBN13 9781400082469
- Publish Date 16 January 2007 (first published 1 January 2007)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 23 September 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 400
- Language English