Author Steven Levy talks about his book “Hackers” 30 years later In my more indulgent moments I can tick off a few career highlights. I found Einstein’s brain. Bill Gates once threw a pencil at me. I interviewed Bob Marley. I wrote books on artificial life, the Macintosh, Google, and the crypto wars of the 1990s. Oh, and I started Backchannel. But a substantial slice of the (geeky) population will always associate me with my first book, Hackers, published in November 1984. It was, after all, the book that established a meme that still throbs in the pulse of Internet discussions, from Anonymous IRC chats to panels on the future of music: Information Wants to Be Free. Read more from Medium: bit.ly/1HvmYoh And get your copy of Hackers today: oreil.ly/1qHXpeY (Makes a great gift!)
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:51:38 +0000