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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

College

Child

" It's almost impossible to totally eliminate terrible content in a huge open network. "

" Just as the cable revolution overturned broadcast, the net is destined to become the dominant mode of video, both in terms of transit and programming. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Google serves all of humanity with information within milliseconds. "

" 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. "

" No one in Silicon Valley loves virtual reality or believes in its future as much as Clay Bavor. "

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

Steven Levy

Revolution

World

Industrial Revolution

" 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. "

" Through a mix of market forces and regulation, we've brought civilization to the electronic provinces. "

" 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. "

" Apple's iPod success led them to believe an even bigger breakthrough was possible with the iPhone. In some respects, the iPhone hype overwhelmed even Apple. "

" 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. "

" No company has embraced the liberating aspects of the Internet as a 'new marketplace of ideas' more than the search giant Google. "

Steven Levy

Ideas

Internet

" There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. "

" Facebook has never been shy about its ambitions. "

" 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. "

" As technology tries to maintain its dizzying ascent, one dead weight has kept its altitude in check: the battery. "

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

Steven Levy

Nation

" Steve Ballmer never used to be someone who let facts speak for themselves. In the 1990s, he was the hyper-energetic Microsoft exec yelling 'Developers! Developers! Developers!' at an all-hands meeting in Safeco field. "

" 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. "

" As an open system, Android is not under the tight control of its creator, Google. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" With the iPod - Apple's first successful stab at market dominance - Apple had begun with a high price but quickly dropped it. "

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

Steven Levy

Who

News

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "