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!
Right. I cross-posted without thinking about this, thanks for pointing it out. As you have figured out already the linked post is a short collection of notes on Ellen's book: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/486625
The title of the blog post (which is different from the title of the HN submission) is the book title (I found out after googling the reviewed author).
I read the article, and I see nowhere that the author states that the title of their review is the title of the book. However, whatever was being reviewed seemed interesting enough to ask here. So, except for your arrogant way of telling me so, I am thankful that I now know, so that I can look up the book.
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!