![]() The book is much less about what they do than what they are, how they go about being what they are, and how they feel about it.Ĭoupland's writing style is, as usual, disjointed and flighty, which can be off-putting to people who aren't used to it. Mostly, they talk about their surroundings. They live together, work together, romance one another, and argue. Published in 1995 by HarperCollins, it focuses on a small group of low-level Microsoft employees who leave to found their own start-up. Microserfs, like the rest of Douglas Coupland's novels, is more literary impressionism than plot-driven story. My computer and myself are defenders of this country. ![]() I must outcompute him before he outcomputes me. I must compute faster than my enemy who is trying to kill me. RainDropUp was kind enough to dig out the decoded version: Pages 104 and 105 are written entirely in binary. I am not being starved, or beaten, or unnecessarily frightened (Any of these pages are practically art, and would look great photocopied and pinned up in your Veal-fattening Pen by the way.) Examples: It contains some great pages where Dan allows 'his computer's subconscious' to take over. The narration is given in the form of the diary of a tester named Dan. The story is simple a group of friends living in a geek house break away from steady-but-dull jobs in Microsoft to form their own exciting new start-up company. First published 1995, although Chapter 1 appeared (in a modified form) in Wired magazine, January 1994. ![]()
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