Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology - Hardcover

Keats, Jonathon

 
9780195398540: Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology

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An insider's guide to the techno-linguistic carnival of new words--what they mean, how they came to be, and why they flourish or fail

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Jonathon Keats writes the Jargon Watch column for Wired Magazine, and has covered science, technology and language, as well as literature and the arts, for dozens of publications including the Washington Post, Popular Science, Scientific American, and Salon.com. He is the author of two novels, The Pathology of Lies and Lighter Than Vanity, and a story collection, The Book of the Unknown, and is the recipient of Yaddo and MacDowell fellowships. He lives in San Francisco and northern Italy.

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