1. Steven Levy was born on 1951 and is an American journalist and editor at large for Wired who has written extensively for publications on computers, technology, cryptography, the internet, cybersecurity, and privacy.
15 Facts About Steven Levy
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Steven Levy is the author of the 1984 book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, which chronicles the early days of the computer underground.
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Steven Levy graduated from Central High School and received a bachelor's degree in English from Temple University.
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Steven Levy earned a master's degree in literature from Pennsylvania State University.
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Steven Levy became as senior editor of New Jersey Monthly, and rediscovered Albert Einstein's brain floating in a mason jar in the Wichita office of pathologist Thomas Stoltz Harvey while reporting a story in 1978.
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Steven Levy described the "hacker ethic", the belief that all information should be free and that it ought to change life for the better.
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Steven Levy was a contributor to Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Software Catalog, first published in 1984.
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In December 1986, Steven Levy founded the Macworld Game Hall of Fame, which Macworld published annually until 2009.
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Steven Levy stepped away from the technology beat in his second book, on the murderous past of hippie and Earth Day co-founder Ira Einhorn, published in 1988 and adapted into an NBC TV miniseries with Naomi Watts in 1999.
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Steven Levy's 1992 book about AI called Artificial Life was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.
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Steven Levy joined Newsweek in 1995 as a technology writer and senior editor.
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In July 2004, Steven Levy published a cover story for Newsweek which unveiled the 4th generation of the iPod to the world before Apple had officially done so.
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Steven Levy continued his coverage of the iPod into a book called The Perfect Thing published in 2006.
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Since 2008, Steven Levy has worked as a writer and editor at large for Wired.
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At various points throughout his career, Steven Levy has written freelance pieces for publications including Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Premiere.