The Best of Technology Writing 2007

The years 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. Its 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 topicsfrom 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 Apples iPod) and Hackers, which PC Magazines 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. OBrien Larry OBrien The Onion Adam L. Penenberg John Seabrook Philip Smith Aaron Swartz Clive Thompson Jeffrey R. Young digitalculturebooks is an imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library dedicated to publishing innovative and accessible work exploring new media and their impact on society, culture, and scholarly communication. Visit the website at www.digitalculture.org.