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Steven Levy writes for Wired, where he is the editor of Backchannel.\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s about people. Travis Kalanick\u2019s foibles aren\u2019t because he\u2019s a technology executive. It\u2019s because he\u2019s Travis Kalanick. That\u2019s the way he is. There is a certain strain in Silicon Valley, which rewards totally driven people, but that is humanity. And advanced technology is no guarantee\u2014and as a matter of fact I don\u2019t think it\u2019ll do anything\u2014from stopping ill-intentioned people from doing ill-intentioned things.\u201d\n\nThanks to MailChimp, Audm, Rover, and Babbel for sponsoring this week's episode.\n@StevenLevy\nstevenlevy.com\nLevy on Longform\n[03:00] readthissummer.com\n[04:00] "Hackers in Paradise" (Rolling Stone \u2022 Apr 1982)\n[05:45] Whole Earth Catalog\n[06:15] Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (O\u2019Reilly Media \u2022 2010)\n[11:00] "The Birth of the Mac: Rolling Stone\u2019s 1984 Feature on Steve Jobs and his Whiz Kids" (Rolling Stone \u2022 Oct 2011)\n[19:00] "Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook\u2019s Future, From Virtual Reality to Anonymity" (Wired \u2022 Apr 2014)\n[20:45] Levy's MTV Cover Story (Rolling Stone \u2022 1983) [not online]\n[23:30] Levy's Bruce Springsteen Story (Philadelphia Magazine \u2022 1975) [not online]\n[28:00] New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009 (Teresa Carpenter \u2022 Modern Library \u2022 2012)\n[30:30] "Reviewing the First Iphone In a Hype Typhoon" (Wired \u2022 Jun 2017)\n[31:30] "From the Archives: The Original Review of \u2018Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band\u2019" (Richard Goldstein \u2022 New York Times \u2022 Jun 2017)\n[32:00] Without a Doubt (Marcia Clark with Teresa Carpenter \u2022 Graymalkin Media \u2022 2016)\n[37:45] Levy\u2019s Archive at Newsweek\n[39:45] In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives (Simon & Schuster \u2022 2011)\n[42:30] Backchannel\n[48:45] "One More Thing: Inside Apple\u2019s Insanely Great (or Just Insane) New Mothership" (Wired \u2022 May 2017)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices