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David B. Auerbach

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I am a writer, technologist, and software engineer. I am the author of MEGANETS (PublicAffairs, 2023) and BITWISE (Pantheon, 2018). I live in New York with my family and 5000 books.

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	Bitwise: A Life in Code 3.45 avg rating — 328 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meganets: How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities 3.68 avg rating — 120 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Music & Literature: Issue 2 by László Krasznahorkai, Béla Tarr, Max Neumann 4.40 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	n+1 Issue 13: Machine Politics by Benjamin Kunkel, Astra Taylor, David B. Auerbach (Goodreads Author) 3.71 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Here Comes Nobody by David B. Auerbach (Goodreads Author), Gabriella Coleman 3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy Volume 4 by Stuart Pratt Sherman, Zoe Beloff (Contributor), Claire Barliant (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“As a coder and a writer, I always kept a foot in each world. For years, I did not understand how they could possibly converge. But neither made sense in isolation. I studied the humanities to understand logic and programming, and I studied the sciences to understand language and literature.”
― David Auerbach, Bitwise: A Life in Code

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“She had a far better ear for language and music than me, and she made me see beauty where I had only been looking for rigor and strain.”
― David Auerbach, Bitwise: A Life in Code

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“Jesus loved crème brûlée, but even with crème brûlée enough isn't just enough, it can get to be too much.”
― Thomas M. Disch, The Word of God: Or, Holy Writ Rewritten

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