On Day 3 of WIRED25, Audrey Tang explains how the Asian nation used open data and transparent governance to empower its citizens to code their own way out of a pandemic. The US recorded its first coronavirus case on January 20, 2020. Taiwan recorded its first case the next day. Now, more than eight months …
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Guests like Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar, hacker Matt Mitchell, and journalist Maria Ressa talk about shifting power dynamics—and changing who’s in control. On the second day of the WIRED25 three-part virtual speaker series, topics ranged from the disastrous effects of the Anthropocene to the importance of journalism in an authoritarian regime. Today’s premise: how to …
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At this year’s WIRED25, the writer-director talked about rebooting the classic slasher and the future of filmmaking after the pandemic. Look around, in any direction, and the margins between horror and everyday life are disturbingly thin, if they’re present at all. In 2020, the terrors of a global pandemic, natural disasters, and police brutality are …
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Guests like Gabriela Cámara, Ghetto Gastro, Nia DaCosta, and Brie Larson discussed how to understand where others are coming from, whether through food or films. To kick off this year’s WIRED25, a group of entrepreneurs, filmmakers, cooks, and actors gathered (virtually) to discuss how they’re improving the world through art and culture. During a conversation …
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At WIRED’s virtual conference, actress Brie Larson, VR director Elijah Allan-Blitz, and Magic Labs Media founder Van Jones talked about their new short films. Virtual reality has long been positioned as a technological tool for bridging ideological chasms. If you can live inside somebody else’s skin and see things as they do, proponents say, you …
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