Anthony Levandowski Isn't the First Tech Visionary to Worship AI

But then it comes back and bites you," Paul Ford, cofounder of the platform-builder Postlight, told me. "You end up in these situations where 80 percent works, 19.9 percent is hard but there's an answer that makes sense, and the last 0.1 percent is absolutely insane." Virginia Heffernan (@page88) is an Ideas contributor at WIRED. She is the author of Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art. She is also a cohost of Trumpcast, an op-ed columnist at the Los Angeles Times, and a frequent contributor to Politico.