Technology

The Best of Technology Writing 2007 edited by Steven Levy

The Best of Technology Writing 2006 edited by Brendan I. Koerner

The Best of Technology Writing 2007

Steven Levy, Editor

Rights: World
For more info, contact Mary Bisbee-Beek at bisbeeb@umich.edu

The Best of Technology Writing 2007 brings together some of the most important, timely, and just plain readable writing in the fast-paced, high-stakes field of technology. This annual collection targets this vibrant and versatile area and features first-rate work from an unusually diverse array of writers: best-selling authors, noted academics, and indie journalists and bloggers. The culmination of an open, on-line nominating process, The Best of Technology Writing 2007 captures the vitality, importance, and complexity of technology today.

Steven Levy is a senior editor at Newsweek, where he writes a column called "The Technologist." His articles, opinion pieces and reviews have appeared in a wide range of publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Rolling Stone, Premiere, and Wired, and have received numerous awards. Levy has also written five books including Hackers, which PC Magazine names the best sci-tech book written in the last twenty years and Crypto which won the grand eBook prize at the 2001 Frankfurt Book Festival. His sixth book, The Perfect Thing, about Apple's iPod music player, was published by Simon & Schuster.

September 2007
320 Pages

The Best of Technology Writing 2006

Brendan I. Koerner, Editor

Rights: World
For more info, contact Mary Bisbee-Beek at bisbeeb@umich.edu

The Best of Technology Writing 2006 brings together some of the most important, timely, and just plain readable writing in the fast-paced, high-stakes field of technology. The first annual collection to target this vibrant and versatile area, The Best of Technology Writing 2006 features first-rate work from an unusually diverse array of writers: best-selling authors, noted academics, and indie journalists and bloggers. The culmination of an open, on-line nominating process, The Best of Technology Writing 2006 covers topics ranging from the awkwardness of virtual romance, to the future of the book, to the meaning of life in the information age.

By turns epic and quirky, serious and light-hearted, but always innovative and fresh, The Best of Technology Writing 2006 captures the vitality, importance, and complexity of technology today.

Brendan I. Koerner is a contributing editor for Wired, a columnist for both The New York Times and Slate, and a fellow at the New America Foundation. His first book will be published by Penguin in 2008.

September 2006
296 pages