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Welcome to WIRED. Let the interview begin.
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Thank you.
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I have been excited to talk with you as WIRED Japan.
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You took part in the WIRED US talk with President Obama and our US Chief Editor.
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That article made quite an impact.
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WIRED was founded in 1993.
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The publication was influenced by west coast culture at the time.
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The magazine had taken a libertarian stance toward the establishment.
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Twenty-five years later,
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the cover is Barack Obama.
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This represents a kind of technological and societal transformation.
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How do you see this evolution over the 25 years at WIRED, Joi?
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I've known about WIRED since it was no more than a proposal.
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I never actually wrote anything, but was called a contributing editor.
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Well, WIRED started in the Internet boom.
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Former Vice President Al Gore is said to have had a copy in his office.
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We were proud of that at WIRED.
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So, people in the know seemed to respond shrewdly to this trend.
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The east coast was even reading Wired.
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MONDO2000 was an even more counter- culture magazine published before Wired.
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I was involved with both when they were first published.
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WIRED was different than MONDO2000.
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Wired was focused on business and a high-quality design.
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It moved away from hippie counterculture.
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The content took a more tech-culture perspective.
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I think this is one reason why WIRED has never really changed its design.
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The design-centered focus is the same.
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However, it has moved away from optimistic stories.
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There was a cutting-edge feel.
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Nicholas Thompson returned to WIRED as Editor-in-Chief from The New Yorker.
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The New Yorker has some positives stories,
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but it is critical of things like social issues.
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These nuances are incorporated into WIRED.
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This style brought in during Facebook's privacy issues.
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So, we are seeing this critical view of issues in WIRED.
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It's The New Yorker style.
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I know WIRED will publish more high-quality, long-form articles.
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It's vital.
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MIT Media Lab publishes a series on WIRED Founder Nicholas Negroponte.
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The Media Lab also started with optimistic content.
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After thirty years, we are taking more responsibility.
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- We have a duty to cover social issues. - So you have committed to.
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How do you see the new economy today?
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There is an overabundance of platforms like Facebook and cryptocurrencies.
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Zuckerberg is not trying to be a villain.