Published on Nov 22, 2013
"We came out and said there was a
digital revolution happening and it was going to change everything,"
says Louis Rossetto, who co-founded Wired magazine 20 years ago in 1993.
"And [that] it wasn't the priests, the pundits, the politicians, and
the generals who were creating positive change."
Rossetto was no stranger to bold predictions. In 1971, he co-authored a cover story in the New York Times Magazine announcing that libertarianism was the next great transformative ideology and that young people were rejecting the played-out politics of the right and the left. After editing a publication called Electric Word in the late 1980s, he and Jane Metcalfe launched Wired, the publication that not revolutionized magazine design but chronicled, critiqued, and in many ways created the Internet Age. The concept was to cover the real change makers, far from the halls of power in Washington or established business capitals such as New York, who were ushering in a new digital era that would transform society. "That meta-story," says Rossetto, "was absolutely spot on."
A critical and commercial hit, Conde Nast purchased the magazine in 1997 and Metcalfe and Rossetto raised a family, did angel investing, and ultimately started the award-winning chocolate company TCHO.
Metcalfe and Rossetto were the recipients of the inaugural Lanny Friedlander Lifetime Achievement Prize at the Reason Media Awards, which were held in New York City on November 6, 2013. The prize is named for the founder of Reason magazine (whom Rossetto knew personally) and honors people who have created a distribution platform that expands human freedom by increasing our ability to express ourselves, engage in debate, and generate new ways of understanding the power of "Free Minds and Free Markets."
Rossetto sat down with Reason TV's Nick Gillespie to talk about the origins of Wired, the promise of the digital revolution, and why "in its death throes, the megastate is going to make a lot of mess."
About 15 minutes.
Shot and edited by Jim Epstein, with help from Anthony Fisher.
Go to http://reason.com/reasontv for downloadable versions and subscribe to Reason TV's YouTube Channel to receive automatic updates when new stories go live.
Rossetto was no stranger to bold predictions. In 1971, he co-authored a cover story in the New York Times Magazine announcing that libertarianism was the next great transformative ideology and that young people were rejecting the played-out politics of the right and the left. After editing a publication called Electric Word in the late 1980s, he and Jane Metcalfe launched Wired, the publication that not revolutionized magazine design but chronicled, critiqued, and in many ways created the Internet Age. The concept was to cover the real change makers, far from the halls of power in Washington or established business capitals such as New York, who were ushering in a new digital era that would transform society. "That meta-story," says Rossetto, "was absolutely spot on."
A critical and commercial hit, Conde Nast purchased the magazine in 1997 and Metcalfe and Rossetto raised a family, did angel investing, and ultimately started the award-winning chocolate company TCHO.
Metcalfe and Rossetto were the recipients of the inaugural Lanny Friedlander Lifetime Achievement Prize at the Reason Media Awards, which were held in New York City on November 6, 2013. The prize is named for the founder of Reason magazine (whom Rossetto knew personally) and honors people who have created a distribution platform that expands human freedom by increasing our ability to express ourselves, engage in debate, and generate new ways of understanding the power of "Free Minds and Free Markets."
Rossetto sat down with Reason TV's Nick Gillespie to talk about the origins of Wired, the promise of the digital revolution, and why "in its death throes, the megastate is going to make a lot of mess."
About 15 minutes.
Shot and edited by Jim Epstein, with help from Anthony Fisher.
Go to http://reason.com/reasontv for downloadable versions and subscribe to Reason TV's YouTube Channel to receive automatic updates when new stories go live.
[SIDEBAR: Quite a number of POLITICIANS stole money sovereignty from the people of earth. This was and is a psychopathic way to act and isn't human - the behavior is sub-human.
The sub-humans are criminally insane. These psychopaths kill their -OUR- own species and this is after the INSTITUTIONS of Walt Disney, Holly Wood, Et Al, Et Cetera subliminally program the species to procreate. WARS are mass murder and the ongoing psychopathic actions are uncontrollable and unpredictable. This is a very dangerous 'world'.
How to navigate through the DEATH OF THE 'MEGA STATE'?
The people most digitally adept can't be trapped in the absolutely WOUND OF THE SOUL/S that have taken hold of our 'imagination/s' and 'think' that IT is G.O.D..
Lots to learn, my friend said after so many tough lessons that life always has for the learning.
EG: how to be a lot greater than the Bush Dynasty and other totally criminally insane -KISSINGER- Bible Thumper/s.]
... to be continued ....
It's over for the New American Project to destroy centuries of culture and other life 'realities'. The losses are substantial. Israel the vassal state - pretend to be HOLY STATE for all - guilty of GENOCIDE. The Vatican isn't poor by any stretch of real estate owned and metals of great value, art, there isn't much the Catholic Holy Dressers up haven't taken as God's chosen. Israel got a good run, but as always, second to the other superstitions. Western Civilization and Eastern Civilization are now at the place where yin and yang get to know the Tao's feng shui, or not
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