The Programmer's Odyssey
A Journey Through The Digital Age
Garth Eaglesfield
The intrepid independent author has often been referred to as the Jack Kerouac of computer programmers and his book "The Programmer's Odyssey" is widely acknowledged to be the digital age's equivalent of Jack Kerouac's beatnik classic "On The Road" .
After an IT career stretching from 1972 to 2000 in the UK and USA he is now an independent observer of and commentator on the contemporary technology scene.
He is also a non-executive director of digital audio company yellow technology to whom he provides business analysis services.
Sources
Sources used in writing the book vary widely and are mostly available over the Internet. For those resources that are not easily available in that way they can be accessed via the links in The History Of Computing Library.