Episode 253: Steven Levy

Published: July 19, 2017, 5:46 p.m.

b'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'