Insanely Great

The creation of the Mac in 1984 catapulted America into the digital millennium, captured a fanatic cult audience, and transformed the computer industry into an unprecedented mix of technology, economics, and show business Now veteran technology writer and Newsweek senior editor Steven Levy zooms in on the great machine and the fortunes of the unique company responsible for its evolution Loaded with anecdote and insight, and peppered with sharp commentary, Insanely Great is the definitive book on the most important computer ever made It is a must have for anyone curious about how we got to the interactive age. Free Download [ Insanely Great ] Author [ Steven Levy ] – kino-fada.fr I fell under the spell of Steve Jobs after finishing Walter Isaacson s biography of him, and fortunately I m slowly stepping out of the glow of the reality distortion field What hasn t changed since my reading of Isaacson s biography however, is an admiration and fascination with the personal computer movement and the way it crafted a rhetoric of computers as a means of changing the world As such I ve been looking for books which explore the Apple Phenomena and Steven Levys book does just th I fell under the spell of Steve Jobs after finishing Walter Isaacson s biography of him, and fortunately I m slowly stepping out of the glow of the reality distortion field What hasn t changed since my reading of Isaacson s biography however, is an admiration and fascination with the personal computer mov...A good overview of how the Macintosh came to be and of the people who made it happen.Steven Levy is a writer who seems to divide opinions I liked his earlier book Hackers a lot , and this book continues with the same style, although this time solely focused on Apple and Macintosh This time a couple of his stylistic devices rubbed me the wrong way, though he seems to have a real penchant for obscure words with perfectly good common alternatives This style of writing can come across as prete A good overview of how the Macintosh came to be and of th...This book is still an entertaining and informative listen or read even with the passage of a quarter century, which in tech years is a very, very long time I enjoyed the trip down memory lane, as much of what s covered here marks a sort of personal timeline and I assume many others who are now in their own fifth decade will have the same reaction The Mac appeared when I was in college, and it was the first computer...The ebook is a reissue of an older book, originally published in 1994 The author has added a couple of appendices, one of which is his essay, In Memory of Steve Jobs, 1955 2011, and the other a lengthy interview with Steve Jobs that took place shortly before the Macintosh launch 1984 I enjoyed this review of the Mac s development, the fervor and frenzy and commitment I ve been a Mac user since 1991, but had forgotten a lot of the details e.g., names of display features, software, etc The ebook is a reissue of an older book, originally published in 1994 The author has added a couple of appendices, one of which is his essay, In Memory of Steve Jobs, 1955 2011, and the other a lengthy interview with Steve Jobs that took place shortly before the Macintosh launch 1984 I enjoyed this review of the Mac s development, the fervor and frenzy and commitment I ve...Reading a new old book I picked from Phoenix used bookstore in Amsterdam near my apartment.The book is called Insanely Grea the life and times of Macintosh, the computer that changed everything I am reading now about the incredibly intelligent visionaries of the sixties and seventies who visualized what a computer could be and do Things that are today part of our everyday vocabulary like desktop, windows, mouse, informations ape and others were leaps of imagination beyond belief.Then come Reading a new old book I picked from Phoenix used bookstore in Amsterdam near my apartment.The book is called Insanely Grea the life and times of Macintosh, the computer that changed everything I am reading now about the incredibly intelligent visionaries of the sixties and seventies who visualized what a computer could be and do Things that are today part of our everyday vocabulary like desktop, windows, mouse, informations ape and others were leaps of imagination beyond belief.T...The Kindle edition of the latest edition of the book, which adds a lengthly 1983 Steve Jobs interview transcript, is available, as I type this, for 4.99 I read the original hardcover edition in 1994, but rereading it and the Jobs interview and an afterword from the 2000 edition was a fascinating experience I d give the latest Kindle edition 5 stars if it weren t for some glaring typos and an obvious factual error that went uncorrected from the 2000 revision Levy asserted, in reference to 1 The Kindle edition of the latest edition of the book, which adds a lengthly 1983 Steve Jobs interview transcript, is available, as I type this, for 4.99 I read the original hardcover edition in 1994, but rereading it and the Jobs interview and an afterword from the 2000 edition was a fascinating experience I d give the latest Kindle edition 5 stars if it weren t for some glaring typos and an obvious fact...An excellent look at the rise and challenges of the Macintosh To me, this book was a bit of a trip down memory lane I remember some of the very applications that Levy describes I remember the frustrations of first using a personal computer, but didn t...This was decent, although 20 years old I like Steven Levy and this was read by him, which made it better The afterword and other updates to the audiobook after Jobs death as well as a very recent roundtable discussion among some of the key players were nice ...Even though I ve heard this story at least 100 times now, the author was still able to make it interesting and added a couple little tidbits that I hadn t heard before.I would recommend it to anyone who wants to learnabout the creation of the Macintosh without all of the technical jargon.Excellent book Enjoyed it This review was created in July 2011, long after I read the book.

• English
• 04 August 2017
Steven Levy
• Paperback
• 336 pages
• 0140291776
• Steven Levy
• Insanely Great