You and the person responding to you are both right. If you don't know Ellen Ullman or Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its discontents, it's kind of side

You and the person responding to you are both right. If you don't know Ellen Ullman or Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its discontents, it's kind of sideways. He does mention Ellen and says > The book is a memoir about her life but never explicitly connects the title of the article to the title of the book or explains this is a review of that specific book (though that section is titled "Review.") So I understand your confusion. I put "Ellen Ullman" in google and that quickly got me to Goodreads.com and seeing a list of her books, including this title. A little mystery left for us to solve. But the author could've also chosen to do a better job of explaining what they were doing here!