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Related: About this forumWIRED endorses Hillary!
...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.
RIGHT NOW WE see two possible futures welling up in the present. In one, societys every decision is dominated by scarcity. Except for a few oligarchs, nobody has enough of anything. In that future, we build literal and figurative walls to keep out those who hope to acquire our stuff, while through guile or violence we try to acquire theirs.
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...
Today we will. WIRED sees only one person running for president who can do the job: Hillary Clinton.
RIGHT NOW WE see two possible futures welling up in the present. In one, societys every decision is dominated by scarcity. Except for a few oligarchs, nobody has enough of anything. In that future, we build literal and figurative walls to keep out those who hope to acquire our stuff, while through guile or violence we try to acquire theirs.
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...
continues in link: www.wired.com/2016/08/wired-endorses-hillary-clinton/
Very glad to see a technology magazine endorsing. This is big. (I guess WIRED is unimpressed with Trump's familiarity with Twitter)
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WIRED endorses Hillary! (Original Post)
NastyRiffraff
Aug 2016
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VMA131Marine
(4,149 posts)1. I would be stunned if any mainstream news outlet endorsed Trump
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)2. So would I, but
this is significant because Wired has NEVER endorsed any candidate, for any office.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)3. Trust WIRED to endorse in a farsighted, inspiring way.
I so agree with their evaluation of the different paths we could take.
Long ago I got a free subscription of a new magazine I'd never heard of for our son, not expecting much. It was WIRED, and he's been a paid subscriber ever since.
Thanks, Nastyriffraff.