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This really is "the Word" -- one-man's word, undoubtedly -- concerning the artwork (and artifice) of their state of our computer-centric lifestyle. And given that the "one-man" is Neal Stephenson, "the hacker Hemingway" (Newsweek) -- recommended novelist, pragmatist, seer, geek-friendly thinker, and nationally best-selling writer of innovative literary functions (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, etc., etc.) -- the term is really worth reading. Mainly well-reasoned evaluation and partial observation, Stephenson's At first, was the Command-Line is just a innovative, irreverent, entertaining treatise on the cyber-culture past and current; on operating-system tyrannies and saved well-known cycles; on the Web, Disney World, Big Hits, not forgetting this is of existence itself.