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Related: About this forumWIRED Endorses Hillary (First Presidential Endorsement Ever)
Joe Conason @JoeConason 6h6 hours ago
READ exceptionally well-written @WIRED editorial for Clinton -- its first presidential endorsement ever.
WIRED has never been neutral.
For nearly a quarter of a century, this organization has championed a specific way of thinking about tomorrow. If its true, as the writer William Gibson once had it, that the future is already here, just unevenly distributed, then our task has been to locate the places where various futures break through to our present and identify which one we hope for.
Our foundersLouis Rossetto, Jane Metcalfe, and Kevin Kellyall supported a strain of optimistic libertarianism native to Silicon Valley. The future they endorsed was the one they saw manifested in the early Internet: one where self-organizing networks would replace old hierarchies. To them, the US government was one of those kludgy, inefficient legacy systems that mainly just get in the way.
Over the past couple of decades, weve gotten to watch their future play out: Weve seen the creative energies of countless previously invisible communities unleashedand, well, weve watched networks become just as good at concentrating wealth and influence in the hands of a few people as the old hierarchies were. Weve seen geeks become billionaires, autocrats become hackers, and our readers (people curious about how technology is shaping the world) become the American mainstream. Like any sane group of thinkers, weve calibrated our judgments along the way. But much of our worldview hasnt changed. We value freedom: open systems, open markets, free people, free information, free inquiry. Weve become even more dedicated to scientific rigor, good data, and evidence-driven thinking. And weve never lost our optimism.
I bring all this up because, for all of its opinions and enthusiasms, WIRED has never made a practice of endorsing candidates for president of the United States. Through five election cycles weve written about politics and politicians and held them up against our ideals. But weve avoided telling you, our readers, who WIRED viewed as the best choice.
Today we will. WIRED sees only one person running for president who can do the job: Hillary Clinton...
read more: http://www.wired.com/2016/08/wired-endorses-hillary-clinton/#hillary-endorsement-jump
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WIRED Endorses Hillary (First Presidential Endorsement Ever) (Original Post)
bigtree
Aug 2016
OP
Most important presidential election of our lifetime. A white nationalist as a president? HELL NO!
grossproffit
Aug 2016
#6
chillfactor
(7,576 posts)1. WOW!
a first time endorsement.....another first for Hillary!
calimary
(81,313 posts)3. This is really cool!
Another first for the likely First Woman President!
SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)4. K & R
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)5. Well, the GOP wants to censor the internet, for starts.
Anyone who respects free speech has no business voting for Trump.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)6. Most important presidential election of our lifetime. A white nationalist as a president? HELL NO!
ismnotwasm
(41,989 posts)8. Holy shit
That is impressive
In the other future, the one WIRED is rooting for, new rounds of innovation allow people to do more with less workin a way that translates into abundance, broadly enjoyed. Governments and markets and entrepreneurs create the conditions that allow us to take effective collective action against climate change. The flashlight beam of science keeps turning up cool stuff in the corners of the universe. The grand social experiments of the 20th and early 21st centuriesthe mass entry of women into the workforce, civil rights, LGBTQ rightscontinue and give way to new ones that are just as necessary and unsettling and empowering to people who got left out of previous rounds. And the sustainably manufactured, genetically modified fake meat tastes really good too.
Our sights might not be perfectly aligned, but its pretty clear Hillary Clinton has her eye on a similar trajectory. She intends to uphold the Paris Agreement on climate change and reduce carbon emissions by up to 30 percent in 2025. She hopes to produce enough renewable energy to power every American home by the end of her first term. She wants to increase the budgets of the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, two major drivers of research and innovation via government funding. And she wants to do the same for Darpa, the defense research agencywithout which, lets face it, WIRED probably wouldnt exist, because no one would have invented the things we cover.
Our sights might not be perfectly aligned, but its pretty clear Hillary Clinton has her eye on a similar trajectory. She intends to uphold the Paris Agreement on climate change and reduce carbon emissions by up to 30 percent in 2025. She hopes to produce enough renewable energy to power every American home by the end of her first term. She wants to increase the budgets of the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, two major drivers of research and innovation via government funding. And she wants to do the same for Darpa, the defense research agencywithout which, lets face it, WIRED probably wouldnt exist, because no one would have invented the things we cover.