Summary of Steven Levy's Insanely Great

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I was invited to visit the inner sanctum of a small conference room in California in November 1983. There, I saw a revolutionary computer called the Macintosh. It was created by a group of people who were groggy and almost giddy from three years of creation.
#2 The Macintosh has become a symbol of intellectual freedom, a signifier that someone has logged into the digital age. It has become a symbol of a sort of intellectual freedom, a signifier that someone has logged into the digital age.
#3 The Macintosh computer is the most important consumer product of the last half of the twentieth century. It was created by serendipity, passion, and magic. It changed the way we think about computers, information, and even thinking.
#4 I had been a stranger to science and an uneasy companion to technology up until 1983, when I met the Mac Team. They changed my life.

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• Economics
• Business
• Infrastructure

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 10 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822501744
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Steven Levy's Insanely Great
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was invited to visit the inner sanctum of a small conference room in California in November 1983. There, I saw a revolutionary computer called the Macintosh. It was created by a group of people who were groggy and almost giddy from three years of creation.

#2

The Macintosh has become a symbol of intellectual freedom, a signifier that someone has logged into the digital age. It has become a symbol of a sort of intellectual freedom, a signifier that someone has logged into the digital age.

#3

The Macintosh computer is the most important consumer product of the last half of the twentieth century. It was created by serendipity, passion, and magic. It changed the way we think about computers, information, and even thinking.

#4

I had been a stranger to science and an uneasy companion to technology up until 1983, when I met the Mac Team. They changed my life.

#5

I was prejudice against computers throughout the 1970s. I wrote stories about Bruce Springsteen, Doctor J, emergency ambulance squads, and cable television access channels, and tried not to think about the small but growing number of fellow writers who were abandoning their electric typewriters for something called word processors.

#6

I had stumbled onto The Big Story: the geeks were changing the world. By late 1983, I was putting the finishing touches on a book called Hackers. The Apple II was a valuable tool, but it bore in many ways its hobbyist roots. Word processing with a personal computer in the early 1980s was like listening to a crystal set.

#7

In the 1980s, there were two potentially earth-shattering computers: the IBM PC, made by IBM, and the Macintosh, made by Apple. The IBM PC was dominant, invincible, and unspeakably vile. The Macintosh was supposed to break through to the masses and launch the computer age into the stratosphere.

#8

The team that created Macintosh was extremely friendly, and they gave me their phone numbers off-therecord. However, Apple had to refuse the Rolling Stone guy because his magazine did not respect Apple's PR team.

#9

I was dazzled by the Mac team members and their enthusiasm for their product. They claimed that the computer would change the world.

#10

The Macintosh was designed from the start to be globally compatible. It was a powerful and useful computer, yet it was also delightful and easy to use. Atkinson said, Until now, the world of art has been a sacred club. Like fine china. Now, it’s for daily use. We’re going to make it so easy to be creative that people will have no excuse not to confront their own artistic ability.

#11

I met with Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, who was trying to get the Mac on the cover of Rolling Stone. He said that the Mac could be Rolling Stone’s salvation. I asked him if he’d even read the magazine lately, and he said yes, and began to tell me what a piece of shit that was.

#12

I recorded the conversation with Jobs, and he was extremely candid. He said, I look at most of the people I get to work with as artists. I look at myself as an artist if anything.