Best of Technology Writing 2008

Name: Best of Technology Writing 2008
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ISBN: 9780472033270

ISBN-10: 0472033271

ISBN-13: 9780472033270

Edition: 2008

Authors: Clive Thompson

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The Best of Technology Writing 2008proves that technology writing is a bona fide literary genre with some of the most stylish, compelling, and just plain readable work in journalism today. The third volume in this annual series,The Best of Technology Writing 2008covers a fascinating mix of topics---from a molecular gastronomist's recipe for the perfect gin and tonic; to "the Mechanism," an ancient Greek artifact that might be the world's first laptop computer; to the new generation gap caused by parents' and kids' dramatically different ideas about privacy online. One of the world's most acclaimed and accomplished science and technology journalists, Clive Thompson writes regularly for…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 8/22/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction



Doctor Delicious: /Popular Science/



Say Everything: /New York Magazine/



The Pedal-to-the-Metal, Totally Illegal, Cross-Country Sprint for Glory: /Wired/



The Polarization of Extremes: /Chronicle of Higher Education/



Fragmentary Knowledge: /New Yorker/



The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer: /New York Times Magazine/



How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook: /InformationWeek/



The Meteor Farmer: /Wired/



Breaking D-Wave: /Walrus/



Your DNA Decoded: /Wired/



The Autumn of the Multitaskers: /Atlantic Monthly/



The Brain on the Stand: /New York Times Magazine/



Twilight of the Books: /New Yorker/



These Images Document an Atrocity: /Washington Post/



The Prophet of Garbage: /Popular Science/



The (Josh) Marshall Plan: /Columbia Journalism Review/



About the Contributors


Acknowledgments