Quotes from Steven Levy

Wifi was never supposed to be a big thing and certainly not a thing that would become as vital to a home as indoor plumbing.

Microtargeting, as its name implies, is a way to identify small but crucial groups of voters who might be won over to a given side, and which messages would do the trick.

Every great device, gadget, electric car, and robot would be even greater if batteries didn't suck so badly.

When superpower countries like the United States and the former Soviet Union contemplated moving their conflicts to outer space, there was justifiable fear and dread.

I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.

There's plenty to admire in the iPhone X straight from the unboxing. The biggest change stares you in the face: that screen, that screen.

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.

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

Implanting a microchip inside the brain to augment its mental powers has long been a science fiction trope.

My favorite thing to do with my iPod was to shuffle my entire music collection and marvel at what songs came next. Sometimes the segues would be so perfect that it seemed a genius deejay was behind the wheel.

Because Facebook can't exist without AI, it needs all its engineers to build with it.

Facebook takes it as a core truth that sharing and connecting is a force that will improve the world.

Generally, TED speakers are believers in the scientific method.

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.

We might enjoy essays, TED talks, and even Facebook posts bemoaning our dependency on tech, but judging by our enthusiastic adoption of these services, we're all in.

Just as we have what used to be supercomputers in our pockets, our homes now require the telecommunications infrastructure of a small city.

We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.

Who wants to broadcast the news that he's bought a can of Sprite? And who wants to see that on a News Feed?

To political technocrats, 2008 marks the maturation of 'microtargeting' - a technique that, if things are as close in November as expected, may well affect who takes the White House.

Twitter provides a platform that allows anyone on the planet - from a political activist in the Middle East to an intemperate golfer in the White House - to broadcast his or her thoughts.

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.

In the history of U.S. elections, the fall of 2000 is notorious for the debacle that occurred in the country's attempt to elect a president that year.

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.

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.