IRB Media Summary of Steven Levy's Insanely Great

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #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.