I love Steven Levy's writing. It has shaped my life.
I found 'Hackers' when I was 16, read it over and over and decided to become a programmer. Then 6 years later, at 22, I read 'Artificial Life' and left my plum programming job to go into computational biology.
Well, I came back to programming eventually, but this guy can sell me anything.
Seeing as how Levy went from writing the excellent Hackers in the 80s to writing a book about how awesome iPods are in the 00s I was wondering if he'd suffered severe head trauma of some kind. Glad to hear he seems to have things figured out.
"He's like the early hackers at MIT such as [open source advocate Richard] Stallman who fought for people not to have passwords or secrets." .. and now fights for people not to confuse "Free Software" and "Open Source"
I found 'Hackers' when I was 16, read it over and over and decided to become a programmer. Then 6 years later, at 22, I read 'Artificial Life' and left my plum programming job to go into computational biology.
Well, I came back to programming eventually, but this guy can sell me anything.