Steven Levy

Biography

American technology journalist and author, born in 1951. A longtime reporter on computing and internet culture, he wrote for Newsweek and Rolling Stone before becoming a senior writer at Wired. His 1984 book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution was the first systematic account of hacker subculture and named the "hacker ethic"; it is regarded as a founding text of the field. His other books include Crypto, In the Plex (on Google) and Facebook: The Inside Story.