A real-time five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Slowly, each reveals the truth about themselves while the world as they know it comes to an end. In the tradi
They are Microserfssix code-crunching computer whizzes who spend upward of sixteen hours a day "coding" and eating "flat" foods (food which, like Kraft singles, can be passed underneath closed doors) as they fearfully scan company e-mail to learn whether the great Bill is going to "flame" one of them. But now there's a chance to become innovators instead of cogs in the gargantuan Microsoft machine. The intrepid Microserfs are striking out on their ownliving together in a shared digital flophouse as they desperately try to cultivate well-rounded lives and find love amid the dislocated, subhuman whir and buzz of their computer-driven world.
Este libro mezcla de reportaje y ficción explora el mundo que existió a principios de los noventa, cuando la década era joven y aún tenia que encontrar su propia textura. Ahora releo estos artículos y es como si abriera un cajon de la cocina y encontrara una caja de Kleenex llena de Polaroids y postales cargadas ya de nostalgia. Espero que las imagenes fotograficas del libro contribuyan a acentuar esa sensacion de hojear antiguas cartas llenas de recuerdos.
