If you loved Hidden Figures or The Rise of the Rocket Girls, you'll love Claire Evans' breakthrough book on the women who brought you the internet--written out of history, until now.
Claire L. Evans is a writer and musician. She is the singer and coauthor of the pop group YACHT, and the founding editor of Terraform, VICE's science-fiction vertical. She is the former futures editor of Motherboard, and a contributor to VICE, the Guardian, WIRED, and Aeon; previously, she was a contributor to Grantland and wrote National Geographic's popular culture and science blog, Universe. She is an advisor to design students at Art Center College of Design and a member of the cyberfeminist collective Deep Lab. She lives in Los Angeles.
"An insightful, intelligent observer...Evans proves a companionable
guide for a tour through cyberspace...[and] provide[s] much needed
perspective." —New York Times
“Broad Band is a celebration of the women whose minds gave birth to
the motherboard and its brethren.... an engaging series of
biographical essays on lesser known mathematicians, innovators and
cyberpunks." —Wall Street Journal
"A jaunty new history of women in computing." —WIRED
“A spirited collection of portraits of women who contributed to the
infrastructure of the digital economy.” —Wall Street
Journal
"In this inspiring tale, writer Evans chronicles the contributions
of some of the many women who aided the rise of the modern
Internet." —Scientific American
“An invigorating history of female coders, engineers,
entrepreneurs, and visionaries who helped create and shape the
internet.” —Publishers Weekly
"An edifying and entertaining history of the rise of the computer
age and the women who made it possible. A good choice for fans of
Hidden Figures." —Kirkus
A “fascinating and inspiring work of women’s
history.” —Booklist
“Broad Band is the Our Bodies, Ourselves for all computer
users—this knowledge belongs to us. And Claire Evans tells the
story like a friend who knows you get bored easily; a generous sort
of brilliance that pulled me right in. This is a
radicallyimportant, timely work.”
—MIRANDA JULY, filmmaker, artist, and author of The First Bad
Man
“Broad Band is such an interesting secret history, written with
great panache.”
—JON RONSON, author of The Psychopath Test and So You’ve Been
Publicly Shamed
“A necessary addition to the story of women in computing, about
known heroes and the fearless women and punks the world needs to
know more about.”
—ELLEN ULLMAN, author of Life in Code, Close to the Machine, and
The Bug
“Broad Band is thrilling, powerful stuff. At once an electric
feminist history of modern tech and a much-needed corrective to the
hyper-male mythology of Silicon Valley, Evans’s compelling,
surprising, and eminently readable work restores due credit to the
countless brilliant women who made the connected world into what it
is today.”
—BRIAN MERCHANT, author of The One Device
“Evans’s riveting account of female innovators from the
Victorianage to today fills in gaps in the history we should have
had all along, and provides unique, enlightening insight into some
of the most revolutionary technological advances of our time—from
the world’s first computer game to the creation of the ‘.com’
domain.”
—JOSHUA DAVIS, author of Spare Parts
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