Steven Levy

Being a hacker has evolved through the centuries. Recent past indicates a hacker as a person that gets into the system of a company or individual in order to obtain information, or to damage the computer. However, in Steven Levy’s text, he indicates a hacker as someone who is trying to push the limits farther, as being a visionary or adventurer. What Steven tried to accomplish was to bring forward the contributions that these innovators laid the foundation for. He was not trying to tell the story of the richest or the most popular, but the story of those that spent countless hours in intimacy with the machine itself, the real story behind the computer revolution. Steven Levy organizes the book as a progression from the earliest start of computers…

Summary Writer, Steven Levy in the article, “Facebook Reset” published in Wired magazine address the topic of Facebook’s cluster created within user’s friends list and that Facebook should clear everyone’s list to friend request important individuals into one’s platform. Levy supports his claim by reminiscing about what the social media was when it was first created versus what it is modernly. At the beginning, he uses a metaphor for Facebook, thus allowing him to propose a solution for such…

In Steven Levy’s “The AI Revolution is on” he talks about the robots and their effective work. Levy says “Kiva bots may not seem very smart. They don’t possess anything like human intelligence and certainly couldn’t pass a turning test (Steven Levy 1596).” This can be linked to John Searle’s comments about Watson. The Kiva bots do not know what they are doing, because they are just following a system that was designed for them. Regardless if they possess the knowledge or not, the kiva bots are…

Nice Legs In modern society, overly sexual representation of women is widely accepted. Women who engage in pornography, stripping, nude photography, and magazines are now accepted. Some women perceive a career in the strip club or pornography as degrading. Other women, like FCP’s (Female Chauvinist Pigs), encourage women to utilize their beauty and/or physical attributes to get ahead. “Their bodies are their instruments” (Nevins 267). This concept of women encouraging other women to objectify…

Ariel Levy’s book Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture is about the post-feminism movement. Here many women have taken to wearing scandalous clothes because they “no longer needed to worry about objectification or misogyny.” This new view confuses Levy because feminism changed so much in such a short period of time. This is like any movement when one goal is achieved the group will try to solve the next issue that arises. Levy seems to not understand this progression…

Rosewood Massacre There have been many wrong doings over time and while many justify the inhumane acts with “It was just the time we lived in back then”, nothing can justify what transpired in a small town in Florida in 1923. Rosewood, Florida was established around 1845. This town was a very small town located in what is now Levy County. This was a quiet town that began to take notice when a railway was built nearby. This railroad would transport the red cedar tree by the masses to a pencil…

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner Andrew Feist The University of Akron United States Government & Politics 100-638 MWRF 11:00-11:50am Dr. James Holland 07 November 2014 The connection between a teacher and a sumo wrestler probably has not crossed your mind. Have you ever thought about how real-estate agents are similar to members of the Ku Klux Klan? These are not connections you would usually make every day, but…

“La Amistad” I will write about the movie “Amistad”, directed by Steven Spielberg. He is a famous director, he has directed many movies, for example: Jaws, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, E.T, Tin-Tin, War Horse, Amistad, etc. The movie Amistad was released in December 10, 1997. It was based in a true history of historical events of 1839 before the United States civil war, it was aboard the slave ship “La Amistad” that was traveling from Cuba to the South of the United States with slaves…

Soul Surfer: A Survivor She was bitten by a shark, but her Bethany’s big courage motivated her to recover and get back to the surfboard. The novel Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton is about a girl named Bethany whose arm was bitten by a shark making her ability to surf almost “impossible” There are lots of historical events that cover the same theme of courage. Two courageous surfers that rescued a man that was drowning in the turbulent ocean, a pilot that saved 155 lives by landing a plane on…

The Matrix: A movie making Revolution The Matrix is a movie released in the year 1999, and it is considered a cult classic by many moviegoers. In terms of science fiction movies, it ranks highly on many lists and represents what critics consider to be a pioneering way of storytelling. It tells the narrative of a dystopian future. In this new reality, machines rule the world and are harnessing humans as an energy source. The humans are plugged in to a virtual reality which is popularly referred…