Joel: Alright, let’s change tack for a second before we get too far off topic. Every once in a while I go to eBay and hover over the complete collection of Omni, but I live in Brooklyn and just don’t have the room for it. It was amazing, It’s funny, almost every consumer electronics item advertised in there is now just something your smartphone does.Ĭlive: They had all the great Heathkit ads for robots with terrible grippers. They were publishing Ben Bova and fresh Isaac Asimov. That’s where I discovered William Gibson. What follows is a transcript of their conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity.Ĭlive: What! You have Omni! No way. The official conversation kicked off after a 15-minute tangent on Joel’s collection of Omni magazine and the formative role this publication had for both men. It’s a sort of ethnographic history of this particular tribe, examining how software developers fit into the world of business and culture and how their role in society has shifted in recent decades.
Thompson’s latest book, Coders, is a wide ranging look at the past, present, and future of programmers. Earlier this year, Clive Thompson, veteran technology journalist and best-selling author, stopped by Stack Overflow for a chat with our founder and CEO Joel Spolsky.
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