This absorbing book will inspire important conversations about big tech and privacy in the twenty-first centuryThis absorbing book will inspire important conversations about big tech and privacy in the twenty-first centuryThis fascinating book reveals the imperial ambitions of Facebook's founderA tour de force of access journalismSteven Levy is the founding guru of technology journalismLevy's narrative is richly detailed, thanks to interviews with Facebookers past and present...His account of Zuckerberg's abbreviated Harvard tenure and Facebook's early years feel fresh, with plenty of colour that reminds you the HBO show Silicon Valley did not have to reach far for its satire
Comprehensive and captivating history
Levy writes with verve... [he] is able to trace the origins of the Cambridge Analytica scheme to Facebook's disregard for the privacy concerns of the first users... He doesn't shy from asking the tough questions
Fresh, up-to-date and insiderish Levy portrays a tech company where no one is taking responsibility for what it has unleashed... The book closes with a recognition that Facebook is bulldozing ahead with new innovations - from Facebook dating to its Libra digital currency project - while Zuckerberg continues to shrug off any ethical queries about his past behaviour
Steven Levy is
Wired's editor at large.
The Washington Post has called him 'America's premier technology journalist.' His previous positions include founder of
Backchannel and chief technology writer and senior editor for
Newsweek. Levy has written seven previous books and has written for
Rolling Stone, Harper's Magazine, Macworld, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The New Yorker, and
Premiere. Levy has also won several awards during his thirty-plus years of writing about technology, including for his book
Hackers, which
PC Magazine named the best sci-tech book written in the last twenty years; and for
Crypto, which won the grand e-book prize at the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair.
Steven Levy is
Wired's editor at large.
The Washington Post has called him 'America's premier technology journalist.' His previous positions include founder of
Backchannel and chief technology writer and senior editor for
Newsweek. Levy has written seven previous books and has written for
Rolling Stone, Harper's Magazine, Macworld, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The New Yorker, and
Premiere. Levy has also won several awards during his thirty-plus years of writing about technology, including for his book
Hackers, which
PC Magazine named the best sci-tech book written in the last twenty years; and for
Crypto, which won the grand e-book prize at the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair.
Steven Levy is
Wired's editor at large.
The Washington Post has called him 'America's premier technology journalist.' His previous positions include founder of
Backchannel and chief technology writer and senior editor for
Newsweek. Levy has written seven previous books and has written for
Rolling Stone, Harper's Magazine, Macworld, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The New Yorker, and
Premiere. Levy has also won several awards during his thirty-plus years of writing about technology, including for his book
Hackers, which
PC Magazine named the best sci-tech book written in the last twenty years; and for
Crypto, which won the grand e-book prize at the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair.