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I don't recommend this book if you are not a Crichton fan.
I don't recommend this book if you haven't read any Crichton.
I don't recommend this book if you are not a fan of science nonfiction.
I don't recommend this book if you are not into computers and programming.
In other words it's only for those few people who are Michael Crichton fans and completists like me. People who are roaming the streets and not occupying a cell in an asylum.
This book along with two more by Crichton:
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is out of print and pretty rare so its hard to find and a bit expensive.
But I managed to find all three with the exception of Jasper Johns.
Electronic Life was written in the early 80's and it is in a way a guide for the uninitiated to the computers. Computers that now belong to the Science Museum. Computers from the 80's that had less memory than a normal smartphone.
It also talks about floppy disks the size of a paperback and computers before the visual interface.
Anything you wanted to do was done by typing commands, not by searching for the folder's icon.
But the reasoning (of how to choose a new product), the ideas, and the humour of Crichton's writing are certainly not dated.
And that's what I enjoyed more from this book.
And the fact that it know belongs to my collection.
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