Steven Levy
Editor-at-Large at WIRED Magazine
Editor at Large @WIRED. Signal: stevenlevy.72
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6 days ago |
technewstube.com | Steven Levy
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6 days ago |
wired.com | Steven Levy
In early June 2005, Steve Jobs emailed his friend Michael Hawley a draft of a speech he had agreed to deliver to Stanford University’s graduating class in a few days. “It’s embarrassing,” he wrote. “I'm just not good at this sort of speech. I never do it. I'll send you something, but please don't puke.”The notes that he sent contained the bones of what would become one of the most famous commencement addresses of all time. It has been viewed over 120 million times and is quoted to this day.
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1 week ago |
maharlikanews.com | Steven Levy
If you reach a point where progress has outstripped the ability to make the systems safe, would you take a pause? I don't think today's systems are posing any sort of existential risk, so it's still theoretical. The geopolitical questions could actually end up being trickier. But given enough time and enough care and thoughtfulness, and using the scientific method …If the time frame is as tight as you say, we don't have much time for care and thoughtfulness. We don't have much time.
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1 week ago |
wired.com | Steven Levy
My first meeting with Bill Atkinson was unforgettable. It was November 1983, and reporting for Rolling Stone, I had gained access to the team building the Macintosh computer, scheduled to launch early the next year. Everyone kept telling me, “Wait till you meet Bill and Andy,” referring to Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld, two key writers of the Mac’s software. Here’s what I wrote about the encounter in my book, Insanely Great:I met Bill Atkinson first.
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wired.com | Steven Levy
Of all the egomaniacal lions who ruled Hollywood during the 20th century gatekeeper era, very few made a brilliant pivot to the internet. The exception is Barry Diller. After leading programming at ABC, running Paramount, and supercharging Fox by launching its broadcast network in the late 1980s, Diller no longer wanted to work for anyone else. Either you are or you aren’t, he said of independence.
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RIP Bill Atkinson. One of a kind https://t.co/zu3wTPC8Vb
Here's the on-camera conversation with @demishassabis who is really optimistic how AI will create a golden age of abundance. I gently object. https://t.co/W1sVpArHtN
In his book Barry Diller didn't say all that much about winning the internet. So in our interview I drilled down on that and learned how he was as plugged-in as you can get. https://t.co/F9TmJCV5tD
