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Steven Levy, Hackers; Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Doubleday 1984) In writing his book, Levy, who is also the chief technology writer for Newsweek, interviewed, investigated, and researched the history of the personal computing revolution in the late seventies and early eighties. The "hacker" subjects are computing geeks like the young Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak and not the nefarious security infiltrators that fit under the word's definition today. The book is divided into three sections, the first addressing the early "hackers" of the 1950s and 1960s, the second with the seventies, and the third with the early eighties. The underlying topic of the book is the "hacker ethic" and what it has meant throughout the history of modern computing. The hackers and hacks described helped form the foundation of the computer culture that became popularized in the 1990s. Reviewer Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, writing for The New York Times in 1984, compared Hackers to The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe. "If Mr. Wolfe's test pilots and astronauts were pushing back the boundaries of outer space," wrote Lehmann-Haupt, "then Mr. Levy's heroes are just as courageously exploring mind space, an inner world where nobody has ever been before." MORE: Barnes and Noble (Includes partial first chapter of book) |
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