Steven Levy

Steven Levy

Birthday: 1951-01-01

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography: Steven Levy is an American journalist. In the 1970s, he worked as a senior editor of New Jersey Monthly, where he was assigned to track down the Einstein's stolen brain. In August 1978, he published an article titled I Found Einstein's Brain. In 1982, he published a Rolling Stone story on computer hackers that drew him into the world of technology. He published multiple books on the subject: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (1984), Artificial Life (1992), Crypto (2001), and Facebook: The Inside Story (2020). He also wrote a book on Ira Einhorn titled The Unicorn's Secret (1988).

Movies

We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists

Takes us inside the world of Anonymous, the radical "hacktivist" collective that has redefined civil...

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The Man Who Stole Einstein's Brain
The Man Who Stole Einstein's Brain

On April 18, 1955, the pathologist performing the autopsy on Albert Einstein covertly steals the gen...

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Hackers: Computer Outlaws
Hackers: Computer Outlaws

Pains in the butt, or super heroes of the computer revolution? How about both. The documentary Hacke...

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Pirat@ge
Pirat@ge

The documentary Pirat@ge traces the history of the Internet through the testimonies of those who bui...

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