史蒂文·列维

史蒂芬·列维 （Steven Levy，1951年—）是任职于连线杂志的一名美国记者和特约编辑，他关注的领域有计算机、技术、密码学、互联网、计算机安全以及隐私。他是 1984 年出版的《黑客：计算机革命的英雄》 一书的作者。利维一共出版了八本著作，内容与黑客文化、人工智能、密码学以及苹果公司、Google和Facebook等公司有关。他在其著作Facebook: The Inside Story中提到了Facebook的历史以及崛起过程，该著作也是根据其本人对Chamath Palihapitiya 、 雪莉·桑德伯格和马克·扎克伯格等Facebook高管的采访整理而成。

Steven Levy (born 1951) 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. He is the author of the 1984 book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, which chronicles the early days of the computer underground. Levy has published eight books covering computer hacker culture, artificial intelligence, cryptography, and multi-year exposés of Apple, Google, and Facebook. His most recent book, Facebook: The Inside Story, recounts the history and rise of Facebook from three years of interviews with employees, including Chamath Palihapitiya, Sheryl Sandberg, and Mark Zuckerberg.

Early life and education

Levy was born in Philadelphia in 1951. He graduated from Central High School and received a bachelor's degree in English from Temple University. He earned a master's degree in literature from Pennsylvania State University.

Career

In the mid-1970s, Levy worked as a freelance journalist and frequently contributed to The Philadelphia Inquirer's Today magazine. In 1976, he was a founding co-editor of the Free Times, a weekly guide to happenings in Philadelphia. He 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.

In the 1980s, Levy's work became more focused on technology. In 1981, Rolling Stone assigned him an article on computer hackers, which he expanded into a book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, published in 1984. He described the "hacker ethic", the belief that all information should be free and that it ought to change life for the better. Levy was a contributor to Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Software Catalog, first published in 1984. He was a contributing editor to Popular Computing and wrote a monthly column in the magazine, initially called "Telecomputing" and later named "Micro Journal" and "Computer Journal", from April 1983 to the magazine's closure in December 1985. In December 1986, Levy founded the Macworld Game Hall of Fame, which Macworld published annually until 2009. 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. Levy's 1992 book about AI called Artificial Life was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology. In 1994, he published the book Insanely Great about the Mac computer.

Levy joined Newsweek in 1995 as a technology writer and senior editor. In July 2004, Levy published a cover story for Newsweek (which also featured an interview with Apple CEO Steve Jobs) which unveiled the 4th generation of the iPod to the world before Apple had officially done so. He continued his coverage of the iPod into a book called The Perfect Thing published in 2006. In 2007, Levy was one of only four journalists (alongside Ed Baig, Walt Mossberg, and David Pogue) provided with advance access to the first iPhone in order to review it.

In 2014, he co-created the tech blog Backchannel, which was integrated into Wired in 2017. Since 2008, Levy has worked as a writer and editor at large for Wired. At various points throughout his career, Levy has written freelance pieces for publications including Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Premiere.

Personal life

He lives in New York City with his wife Teresa Carpenter, a Pulitzer Prize-winning true crime and history writer. They have a son.