Sr Writer
Wired Magazine
Steven Levy is a senior writer for Wired, the former chief technology correspondent for Newsweek and the author of seven books. Washington Post describes him as “American’s premier technology journalist.” His most recent book, In The Plex: How Google Thinks Works and Shapes Our Lives has been a New York Times bestseller and is heralded as the definitive word on the search giant. His first book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, the computer history class which was named by the readers of PC Magazine as the best sci-tech book of 20 years; it was recently updated for a 25th anniversary edition. A longtime expert on Apple, Levy has written the history of the Macintosh, Insanely Great; and The Perfect Thing, about the iPod. Other books include Crypto, Artificial Life, and The Unicorn’s Secret. Before he covered technology, Levy wrote about music, crime, sports and culture, and once made headlines by finding Albert Einstein’s brain in a cardboard box in Wichita, Kansas.