Steven Levy is the editor in chief of Backchannel, a hub for tech writing on Medium. He is the former senior staff writer for Wired, the former chief technology correspondent for Newsweek and the author of seven books. The Washington Post describes him as “American's premier technology journalist . . . a Silicon Valley insider who writes for the rest of us on the outside.”

His most recent book, In The Plex: How Google Thinks Works and Shapes Our Lives has been a New York Times bestseller and is heralded as the definitive word on the search giant. It was chosen by Amazon.com as the Best Business Book of 2011. His first book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, is the computer history classic which was named by the readers of PC Magazineas the best sci-tech book of the last 20 years. A recipient of numerous awards, Levy has written for many publications including the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Rolling Stone, the New Yorker, and Esquire.