Summary of Steven Levy's Insanely Great

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#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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822501744

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 1

#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.

#5

I was prejudice against computers throughout the 1970s. I wrote stories about Bruce Springsteen, Doctor J, emergency ambulance squads, and cable television access channels, and tried not to think about the small but growing number of fellow writers who were abandoning their electric typewriters for something called word processors.

#6

I had stumbled onto The Big Story: the geeks were changing the world. By late 1983, I was putting the finishing touches on a book