Robert Levine was the executive editor of Billboard magazine and has written for Vanity Fair, Fortune, Rolling Stone, and the arts and business sections of the New York Times. He was also a features editor at New York magazine and then Wired. He has covered music, technology, and the awkward dance between them for more than fifteen years. He holds a B.A. in politics from Brandeis University and an M.S.J. from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He lives in New York and Berlin.