Steve G. Steinberg
| I started writing about technology when, at the tail end of 7th grade, a friend and I decided to publish a hacker 'zine. My articles about Unix security and military phone systems were an embarrassing blend of factual errors, supposition, and juvenile argot. But while I misunderstood the technology, I got the spirit just right. I knew that writing about technology was like being a hacker. It was about cracking open the black box and baring |
the mechanism that lay inside. Ten years later, after working as a programmer in Santa Barbara and Tokyo
and obtaining a graduate degree in computer science, I had the background
necessary to get the facts right.
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And after studying the work of
sociologists of technology like Bruno Latour and Donald MacKenzie, I had a
keen understanding of the social forces that lie inside the
black box.
I like to think that all of these threads show up in the articles on this
web page. Most of them were written three years ago, while I was an
editor at Wired magazine and a columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Steve G. Steinberg |