J.M. Coetzee wrote a novella called Youth: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/may/04/fiction.jmcoetzee http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/may/04/fiction.jmc

J.M. Coetzee wrote a novella called Youth: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/may/04/fiction.jmcoetzee http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/may/04/fiction.jmcoetze... – it features a great section about programming at IBM during the 60s, and although the book itself is not wholly about computers or programming, it does deal with some of those themes (isolation, poetry).