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Revision as of 05:32, 21 February 2003 by TUF-KAT (talk | contribs) (tried to reword a bit, but may have messed things up more than fixed them)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Microserfs is a novel by Douglas Coupland, published in 1995 (see 1995 in literature).
Factually, it is a study of two tiny, but globally significant subcultures of the 1990s: the lives of employees of Microsoft, the people that create the technology that sits on the majority of office desks in the world; we see the role of both technology and the personality of Bill Gates in their lives; and a continuation of the story of the same characters after they have moved to California to work as a tiny start-up company. We get an intimate view of this phenomenon - the struggle for capital and to get to the market first.
Thematically, the book explores ideas of identity, man's desire for independence, and above all, the desire to belong.