Quotes by Steven Levy - Page 2

The rush into scripted video by tech giants is going to accelerate an evolution of entertainment that's already underway. We're already moving away from the idea that drama is a 60-minute exercise with four bathroom breaks.
Steven Levy / Journalist
Accelerate
Bathroom
Evolution
Giants
Moving Away
Breaks
Rush
Tech
Scripted
Underway
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Every year, I come to TED prepared to roll my eyes a lot at the beginning, but knowing that at some point in the intellectual marathon, my brain will buckle to the cascade of ideas and bend to the painstakingly rehearsed presentations.
Steven Levy / Journalist
Cascade
Marathon
Bend
Rehearsed
Ted
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Technology writers are seldom subject to frenzied, Beatlemania-esque paroxysms of public attention. June 29, 2007, was the exception. I was in the wrong place - Apple's Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan - with the right device. The iPhone.
Steven Levy / Journalist
Exception
Fifth
Iphone
June
Manhattan
Apple
Avenue
Device
Seldom
Wrong Place
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Everyone in the tech business, from Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr on down, says that the ruination of the industry, if not the entire country, will come from the inability to hire more brainiacs from countries like China and India.
Steven Levy / Journalist
Capitalist
China And India
Inability
Venture
Business Will More
Hire
Perkins
Tech
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Internet-centric companies have already begun changing the rules with binge-watching, flexible running times, fewer commercials, and crowd-sourced content. The brainpower - and just plain power - of the most valued tech firms will change things even more.
Steven Levy / Journalist
Fewer
Flexible
Begun
Change Things
Commercials
Valued
Plain
Tech
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What made the days leading up to the iPhone launch even crazier was that Apple had pulled off the greatest disappearing act in tech promotion history. In January 2007, Jobs announced the long-awaited iPhone. But somewhere that winter, the iPhone vanished.
Steven Levy / Journalist
Iphone
January
Promotion
Winter
Announced
Apple
Crazier
Disappearing
Launch
Pulled
Tech
Vanished
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Ideas, Mike Jones, an engineer at Google explained, were like babies - everything about their environment said they shouldn't exist. But they do. You can't dwell on problems too early, or they will swamp the virtues and you will decide not to do the project.
Steven Levy / Journalist
Baby
Google
Ideas
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The myth of the peachfuzz billionaire has emerged. This new Horatio Alger typically launches his first start-up in middle school, and somewhere between the campus computer-science lab and a move to Palo Alto hacks up a Web site where users provide fun or useful content.
Steven Levy / Journalist
Billionaire
Campus
Middle School
Myth
Site
Users
Alto
Useful
Emerged
Lab
Start-Up
Web
Web Site
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The fact that biological, or 'natural' rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.
Steven Levy / Journalist
Computer
Creation
Rules
Biological
Emotions
Experiences
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The fact that biological, or "natural" rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.
Steven Levy / Journalist
Art
Fashion
Interesting
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Even though chess isn't the toughest thing that computers will tackle for centuries, it stood as a handy symbol for human intelligence. No matter what human-like feat computers perform in the future, the Deep Blue match demands an indelible dot on all timelines of AI progress.
Steven Levy / Journalist
Computers
Blue
Chess
Handy
Human Intelligence
Indelible
Progress
Ai
Perform
Centuries
Deep
Demands
Dot
Feat
Match
Stood
Symbol
Tackle
Toughest
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How do you show off the most anticipated product in years? That was my dilemma with the iPhone X. Since my unit was one of the first few released into the wild, it naturally drew a lot of curiosity when I pulled it out of my pocket and gave it a dewy-eyed glance to wake it from slumber.
Steven Levy / Journalist
Curiosity
Dilemma
Iphone
Slumber
Since
Naturally
Anticipated
Wild
Drew
Few
Gave
Glance
Pocket
Product
Pulled
Released
Show Off
Unit
Wake
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For many years, when people described how the Internet worked - whether they were talking about shopping, communicating, or starting a business there - they inevitably invoked a single metaphor. The Internet, said just about everybody, was a contemporary incarnation of the wild, wild West.
Steven Levy / Journalist
Contemporary
Incarnation
Metaphor
Shopping
Wild West
Wild
Inevitably
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The vast majority of Americans perform sophisticated digital tasks on a daily basis. Grandmas and grandpas e-mail digital photos of their cruise trip and IM their kids in school. So a politician admitting that he or she can't bother to learn those things indicates a horse-and-buggy mentality.
Steven Levy / Journalist
Admitting
Bother
Cruise
Digital
Mentality
Sophisticated
Daily Basis
Vast
He Or She
Trip
Vast Majority
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This paradox of vision - the genius of youthful ignorance - is nothing new. Had Bill Gates not been in diapers in the early days of computer software, he might have understood that there could never be a market for consumer software - but the 19-year-old Gates went ahead and cofounded Microsoft.
Steven Levy / Journalist
Diapers
Gates
Ignorance
Microsoft
Nothing New
Paradox
Software
Bill Gates
Consumer
Early Days
Youthful
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After a few days with the iPhone X, I can begin to make out its themes. It's a step towards fading the actual physical manifestation of technology into a mist where it's just there - a phone that's 'all screen,' one that turns on simply by seeing you, one that removes the mechanics of buttons and charging cables.
Steven Levy / Journalist
Technology
Buttons
Charging
Fading
Iphone
Manifestation
Mist
Seeing
Turns
Begin
Actual
After
Days
Simply
Phone
Few
Towards
Mechanics
Screen
Step
Themes
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Right after the keynote in which Steve Jobs introduced the iPod Shuffle, I went backstage with one question in mind: What makes an iPod an iPod? By then - January 11, 2005 - I had staked my own claim to iPod expertise, having written a 'Newsweek' cover story about Apple's transformational music player, and I was writing a book on it.
Steven Levy / Journalist
Expertise
January
Shuffle
Apple
Backstage
Claim
Cover
Introduced
Ipod
Newsweek
Steve
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The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK, it doesn't take a genius, or even a politician, to figure out that big changes are afoot when we have a medium that lets someone throw up a virtual storefront on the Web and instantly gain access to the global market.)
Steven Levy / Journalist
Gains
Genius
World
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Two thoughts occur to just about any parent whose child is about to enter college. The first is, 'I can't believe how quickly the years have gone by.' The second: 'I can't believe how much it costs.' As one of those parents, I did my best to get past the disturbing first thought and tried to calm my churning stomach while dealing with the second.
Steven Levy / Journalist
Calm
Churning
College
Disturbing
Parent
Stomach
Dealing
Enter
How Much
Occur
Quickly
Second
Tried
Whose
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The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers--and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works--should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative! All information should be free. Mistrust authority--promote decentralization. Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position. You can create art and beauty on a computer. Computers can change your life for the better.
Steven Levy / Journalist
Art
Hands
Yield
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