Bitwise: a life in code

Logo and love

Chat wars

Binaries

Interlude: Foreign tongues

Naming of parts

Self-approximations

Games computers play

Interlude: Adventures with text

Big data

Programming my child

Big human

Epilogue: The reduction of language, the flattening of life.

Part I : Logo and love : The turtle ; The assembly ; The split ; The join ; The work

Chat wars : Interop ; Microsoft agonistes ; Code work ; The buffer overflow

Binaries : Praxis and theory ; Truthtellers ; Is and Os ; On and off ; True and false

Interlude : Foreign tongues

Part II : Naming of parts : Labels ; Male and female ; Masterminds and crackpots ; Bitwise and byte foolish

Self-approximations : The big five (or six) ; Diagnostics and statistics ; Machine psychiatry

Games computers play : Dungeons and dice ; Deterrence and détente ; The quantified dwarf

Interlude : Adventures with text

Part III : Big data : From the client to the cloud ; Hangman ; The library of Babylon ; Descent from the sky

Programming my child : Initial conditions ; Received ignorance ; The child as network ; Machine and child learning

Big human : The vacuum cleaner ; Profiles ; Bad labels ; The social graph ; The presentation of self in Internet life

Epilogue : The reduction of language, the flattening of life.