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'A penetrating account of the momentous consequences of a reckless young company with the power to change the world' Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store and The Upstarts How much power and influence does Facebook have over our lives? How has it changed how we interact with one another? And what is next for the company - and us? As the biggest social media network in the world, there's no denying the power and omnipresence of Facebook in our daily life. And in light of recent controversies surrounding election-influencing "fake news" accounts, the handling of its users' personal data, and growing discontent with the actions of its founder and CEO, never has the company been more central to the national conversation. In this fascinating narrative - crammed with insider interviews, never-before-reported reveals and exclusive details about the company's culture and leadership - award-winning tech reporter Steven Levy tells the story of how Facebook has changed our world and asks what the consequences will be for us all.
Bible Overview
Introduction to the Bible Written with young people and new believers in mind Chapters include study questions
Hackers
This 25th anniversary edition of Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers -- those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks, bent the rules, and pushed the world in a radical new direction. With updated material from noteworthy hackers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Stallman, and Steve Wozniak, Hackers is a fascinating story that begins in early computer research labs and leads to the first home computers. Levy profiles the imaginative brainiacs who found clever and unorthodox solutions to computer engineering problems. They had a shared sense of values, known as "the hacker ethic," that still thrives today. Hackers captures a seminal period in recent history when underground activities blazed a trail for today's digital world, from MIT students finagling access to clunky computer-card machines to the DIY culture that spawned the Altair and the Apple II.
Bias in The Media
In this in this riveting and revealing book, Steve Levy, gives a gripping account of the real-life liberal bias in the media. Once his county's most popular politician, Steve shares a shocking story about how the media treats a politician who switches parties from Democrat to Republican.Few books have been written about switching political affiliations, its repercussions and its consequences. Bias in the Media explores how the liberal media tries to shape the outcome of elections by: 1. Omitting information opposing their agenda 2. Printing outright false information 3. Determining who will be quoted in articles 4. Making morality decisions on what is "right" or correct When Steve Levy was t...
Summary of Steven Levy's Insanely Great
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was invited to visit the inner sanctum of a small conference room in California in November 1983. There, I saw a revolutionary computer called the Macintosh. It was created by a group of people who were groggy and almost giddy from three years of creation. #2 The Macintosh has become a symbol of intellectual freedom, a signifier that someone has logged into the digital age. It has become a symbol of a sort of intellectual freedom, a signifier that someone has logged into the digital age. #3 The Macintosh computer is the most important consumer product of the last half of the twentieth century. It was created by serendipity, passion, and magic. It changed the way we think about computers, information, and even thinking. #4 I had been a stranger to science and an uneasy companion to technology up until 1983, when I met the Mac Team. They changed my life.
Summary of Steven Levy's In the Plex
Get the Summary of Steven Levy's In the Plex in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "In the Plex" delves into the intricate world of Google, exploring the company's evolution from a Stanford University project to a global tech leader. The book reveals the origins of Google's search engine, detailing how Larry Page and Sergey Brin's innovative PageRank algorithm revolutionized the way information is accessed online. It examines the challenges Google faced as it expanded its services, including the controversial Book Search project, which aimed to digitize the world's books but encountered legal pushback over copyright concerns...
Insanely Great
The creation of the Mac in 1984 catapulted America into the digital millennium, captured a fanatic cult audience, and transformed the computer industry into an unprecedented mix of technology, economics, and show business. Now veteran technology writer and Newsweek senior editor Steven Levy zooms in on the great machine and the fortunes of the unique company responsible for its evolution. Loaded with anecdote and insight, and peppered with sharp commentary, Insanely Great is the definitive book on the most important computer ever made. It is a must-have for anyone curious about how we got to the interactive age.
To Pixar and Beyond
A Sunday Times Best Book of the Year 2017 One day in November 1994, Lawrence Levy received a phone call out of the blue from Steve Jobs, whom he’d never met, offering him a job running Pixar, a little-known company that had already lost Jobs $50 million. With Pixar’s prospects looking bleak, it was with some trepidation that Levy accepted the position. After a few weeks he discovered that the situation was even worse than he’d imagined. Pixar’s advertising division just about broke even, its graphics software had few customers, its short films didn’t make any money and, on top of all that, Jobs was pushing to take the company public. Everything was riding on the studio’s first feature film, codenamed Toy Story, and even then it would have to be one of the most successful animated features of all time… Full of wisdom on bringing business and creativity together, and recounting the touching story of Levy’s enduring friendship with Jobs, To Pixar and Beyond is a fascinating insider’s account of one of Hollywood’s greatest success stories.
Solutions to America's Problems
Solutions to America's Problems is a politically incorrect conservative's take on how to fix the problems America faces, ranging from illegal immigration, healthcare, income inequality, college costs, climate change, taxes, foreign affairs, education disparities and more.
Artificial Life
This book looks at artificial life science - A-Life, an important new area of scientific research involving the disciplines of microbiology, evolutionary theory, physics, chemistry and computer science. In the 1940s a mathematician named John von Neumann, a man with a claim to being the father of the modern computer, invented a hypothetical mathematical entity called a cellular automaton. His aim was to construct a machine that could reproduce itself. In the years since, with the development of hugely more sophisticated and complex computers, von Neumann's insights have gradually led to a point where scientists have created, within the wiring of these machines, something that so closely simulates life that it may, arguably, be called life. This machine reproduces itself, mutates, evolves through generations and dies.
