The Best of Technology Writing 2007

The year’s best writing on tech: a collection as imaginative and compelling as its dynamic subject

“This book is not just an illuminating and instructive guide to our high-tech frontier. It’s also a great testimony to the power of that most ancient of technologies, the written word.”

—Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad is Good for You

Together the essays in The Best of Technology Writing 2007 capture the versatility and verve of technology writing today. Solicited through an open online nominating process, these pieces explore a wide range of intriguing topics—from “crowdsourcing” to the online habits of urban moms to the digital future of movie production. The Best of Technology Writing 2007 will appeal to anyone who enjoys stellar writing.

Steven Levy is a Senior Editor at Newsweek, where he writes the biweekly column “The Technologist.” One of the most acclaimed and versatile technology writers in the country, Levy has written six books, including The Perfect Thing (about Apple’s iPod) and Hackers, which PC Magazine’s readers voted the best sci-tech book written in the last twenty years. He has written for many publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Wired.

Featuring contributions from

Kevin Berger

Paul Boutin

Kiera Butler

Joshua Davis

Julian Dibbell

Matt Gaffney

Lori Gottlieb

John Gruber

Jeff Howe

Kevin Kelly

Jaron Lanier

Preston Lerner

Farhad Manjoo

Justin McElroy

Ben McGrath

Katharine Mieszkowski

Emily Nussbaum

Jeffrey M. O’Brien

Larry O’Brien

The Onion

Adam L. Penenberg

John Seabrook

Philip Smith

Aaron Swartz

Clive Thompson

Jeffrey R. Young

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Steven Levy is a Senior Editor at Newsweek, where he writes the biweekly column, ""The Technologist."" One of the most acclaimed and versatile technology writers in the country, his articles, opinion pieces, and reviews have appeared in a wide range of publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Harper's Premiere, and Wired, and have received numerous awards. Levy has also written six books, including Hackers, which PC Magazine named the best Sci-Tech book written in the last twenty years, and Crytpo, which won the grand eBook prize at the 2001. His most recent book, The Perfect Thing: How the IPOD Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness will be available in paperback in Fall 2007. He lives in New York City with his wife, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Teresa Carpenter, and their son.