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Steven Levy
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Steven Levy

Steven Levy is a senior writer at Wired, and was formerly senior editor and chief technology correspondent for Newsweek. He is the author of six previous books, including Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, which was voted the best sci-tech... Read full bio

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My life in 8 words: "Continually fascinated by the amazing revolution in tech"
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New York Times, February 2, 2012
...term “hacker,” saying his company operated the Hacker Way, with constant innovation and pushing limits. The technology writer Steven Levy noted on Twitter that the letter tracked closely to his influential 1984 book “Hackers,” which profiled the...
New York Times, February 2, 2012
...term “hacker,” saying his company operated the Hacker Way, with constant innovation and pushing limits. The technology writer Steven Levy noted on Twitter that the letter tracked closely to his influential 1984 book “Hackers,” which profiled the...
ZDNet UK, January 30, 2012
...general theme is the tension between control and freedom in new media. The popular writer is long-time journalist Steven Levy, who has added to his work for Wired and Newsweek a string of excellent books on technology history and development. Levy's...
Yahoo! México, January 24, 2012
...left thousands of notes across books. The few books enhanced by authors or experts were fun to read. Steven Levy remarked on a line in his book, “In the Plex,” that described his travels from San Francisco to Tokyo, Beijing, Bangalore and Tel Aviv:...
Zimbio, January 16, 2012
...Dale Dougherty, editor and publisher of MAKE magazine interviews Steven Levy senior writer for Wired Magazine about Hackers Heroes of the Computer Revolution – 25th Anniversary Edition. Levy’s classic book about the original hackers of the computer...
Jewish Week, December 21, 2011
...Strulowitz and the three writers — Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times tech reporter Matt Richtel; Wired magazine’s Steven Levy, author of “In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives” and moderator Jonathan Rosen, author of The...
MacSpeedZone, December 15, 2011
...it you'll probably be forever indebted to us for tepidly serving it up right here. Wired contributor Steven Levy sat down with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to discuss the Kindle Fire and all things Amazonian. "Bezos doesn't consider the Fire a mere device,...
I Has Apple !, October 12, 2011
...contains Wired’s best stories about him over the years, all prefaced with a heartfelt remembrance written by Steven Levy, a senior writer for Wired who has interviewed Jobs multiple times. Wired describes the anthology as follows: It’s hard to...
THE FIRE WIRE, October 8, 2011
...featuring Wired Magazine's best stories about him. The anthology begins with a remembrance by Wired senior writer Steven Levy, who interviewed Jobs many times over the last two decades. Wired continues with six other stories that track Jobs on his...
TechBlog, October 5, 2011
...Jobs: “He changed the way each of us sees the world.” • Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011 – Steven Levy, writing in Wired. • Steve Jobs’s Patents – From the NYTimes • Steve Jobs’ Biography Sales Jump 22,000 Percent Upon Death – Hollywood...
Ye Olde Soapbox, September 28, 2011
...Playing With Fire: Amazon Launches $200 Tablet, Slashes Kindle Prices   By  Steven Levy       One year ago, almost to the day, Jeff Bezos gave me the reason why people should carry around a Kindle in the age of the iPad...
Masters of Media, September 20, 2011
...provide a work environment where engineers are in the center of everything. The reason In the Plex by Steven Levy is worth reading is because of its author; he has gained unprecedented access to the employees and the management of the company and his...
Peter B. Collins, September 14, 2011
...Wired magazine Senior Editor Steven Levy is our single guest for this podcast, talking about his new book In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives. Levy has also written two books...
searchengineland.com, September 13, 2011
...the Which Way Google panel here at SMX East. We’ve got a great panel — Jeff Jarvis, Steven Levy and Marc Rotenberg — set to cover a range of issues. Let’s live blog. This is new for me — I never live blog at my own conferences...