This book has an emotional quality which is missing from a lot of critical tech writing. Really worthwhile collection, although the contents are quite varied I expect something here will appeal to anyone who enjoyed Close to the Machine.

The outsider-becomes-insider accounts of the tech world of 1990s San Francisco were probably the sections I enjoyed the most while reading them. The short section of essays on artificial life - including the role of the body in intelligence - are the ones that I'm still thinking about six months later.