Steven Levy

A columnist for Wired magazine, author, and former senior editor of Newsweek, Steven Levy has been at the forefront of technology since 1975.

Levy joined Newsweek in 1995 as senior editor, chief technology correspondent, and writer of a column called "The Technologist." In 2008, he joined Wired magazine as a full-time writer after contributing to the publication since its first issue.

An accomplished author, Levy is the author of six books, including Hackers, named the best Sci-Tech book written in the last 20 years by PC Magazine; The Unicorn's Secret, which investigated the 1979 murder of Holly Maddux and detailed how suspect Ira Einhorn successfully eluded justice for a decade; and Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government-Saving Privacy in the Digital Age, which won the grand eBook prize at the Frankfurt Book festival. Crypto tells the fascinating – and important — story of the revolution in cryptography. Released to rave reviews, Crypto was called "a triumph. To combine science and political intrigue and make it a compulsive page-turner is a good trick but to make it essential reading for the age as well, is a mark of brilliance" by the London Times. He is also the author of The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness, which examines the iPod and its reverberations in the business and cultural world. His most recent book is In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives, which Kirkus Reviews calls a "dense, driven examination of the pioneering search engine that changed the face of the Internet."

Levy is an authority on technology and innovation and his articles, opinion pieces, and reviews have appeared in a wide range of publications, including Harper's, Premiere, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. In addition, he has been a regular columnist for Rolling Stone and Macworld. Before focusing on technology, Levy wrote on a variety of subjects including music, sports, and film.