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Geek Power: Steven Levy Revisits Tech Titans, Hackers, Idealists

GalleryGates, Zuckerberg Meet for Wired Cover Shoot"It's funny in a way", says Bill Gates, relaxing in an armchair in his office. I was trying to capture what I thought was the red-hot core of the then-burgeoning computer revolution — the scarily obsessive, absurdly brainy, and endlessly inventive people known as hackers. My editor had urged me to be ambitious, and so I shot high, crafting a 450-page narrative in three parts, making the case that hackers — brilliant programmers who discovered worlds of possibility within the coded confines of a computer — were the key players in a sweeping digital transformation. But behind the inventiveness was something even more marvelous — all real hackers shared a set of values that has turned out to be a credo for the information age. Thumbing through David Kushner's Masters of Doom, I learned that reading Hackers as a geeky teenager reassured Doom creator John Carmack that he was not alone in the world.

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