{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "This is \"the Word\" -- one man's word, certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the \"one man\" is Neal Stephenson, \"the hacker Hemingway\" (Newsweek) -- acclaimed novelist, pragmatist, seer, nerd-friendly philosopher, and nationally bestselling author of groundbreaking literary works (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, etc., etc.) -- the word is well worth hearing. Mostly well-reasoned examination and partial rant, Stephenson's In the Beginning...was the Command Line is a thoughtful, irreverent, hilarious treatise on the cyber-culture past and present; on operating system tyrannies and downloaded popular revolutions; on the Internet, Disney World, Big Bangs, not to mention the meaning of life itself."}, "covers": [8347565, -1], "key": "/works/OL38477W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL19430A"}}], "title": "In the Beginning...Was the Command Line", "subjects": ["Computer Technology", "Nonfiction", "Operating systems (Computers)", "Humor, form, essays", "American wit and humor, science", "Long Now Manual for Civilization"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 10, "revision": 10, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-15T08:11:36.189237"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-03-25T05:31:25.935552"}}