Wired Summaries and Reviews
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Barack Obama, Neural Nets, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of the World
The President in Conversation with MIT’s Joi Ito and Wired’s Scott Dadich
Wired, 2016
Biologist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty – CRISPR
WIRED has challenged biologist Neville Sanjana to explain this concept to 5 different people; a 7 year-old, a 14 year-old, a college student, a grad student and a CRISPR expert.
Wired, 2017
Did Science Miss Its Best Shot at an AIDS Vaccine?
For 35 years, researchers have been trying to beat the virus that causes AIDS. For just as long, Burt Dorman has been saying he has a faster way.
Wired, 2018
Global Warming. Inequality. Covid-19. And Al Gore Is…Optimistic?
As vice president, he looked for big policy answers to hard global problems. Now he says all our crises are speeding us toward real solutions.
Wired, 2020
How Y Combinator Changed the World
If launching Airbnb, Stripe, and Dropbox weren’t enough, the famous accelerator has had an outsize – and mixed – impact on all of us.
Wired, 2021
Is Big Tech Merging With Big Brother? Kinda Looks Like It
The all-seeing Amazon, Google, and Facebook have every incentive to help the national security state undermine privacy, free speech and democracy. We’ve read this book before.
Wired, 2019
Meet the Star Witness: Your Smart Speaker
Requests are rising from law enforcement for information on devices, which can include internet queries, food orders and overheard conversations.
Wired, 2020
Quantum Computing Expert Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty
WIRED has challenged IBM’s Dr. Talia Gershon (Senior Manager, Quantum Research) to explain quantum computing to 5 different people: a child, teen, a college student, a grad student and a professional.
Wired, 2018
Ripple Effect
To obsessed water engineer Marc Edwards, the lead crisis in Flint is just the beginning of an epidemic.
Wired, 2016
She Helped Wreck the News Business. Here’s Her Plan to Fix It
Nandini Jammi’s advertiser boycotts scared brands away from journalism and into shady ad tech. Now she wants to teach marketers to think for themselves again.
Wired, 2020
The Case for Letting People Work from Home Forever
Do you want happier, productive, more engaged, and more fulfilled employees and co-workers? Well, you should campaign to let them work remotely. Here’s why.
Wired, 2021
The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet
At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story.
Wired, 2020
The Genesis Engine
We now have the power to quickly and easily alter DNA. It could eliminate disease. It could solve world hunger. It could provide unlimited clean energy. It could really get out od hand.
Wired, 2015
The Inside Story of BitTorrent’s Bizarre Collapse
How a group of valley outsiders blew through the company’s cash and nearly left it for dead.
Wired, 2017
The Noisy Fallacies of Psychographic Targeting
Cambridge Analytica’s targeting efforts probably didn’t work, but Facebook should be embarrassed anyway.
Wired, 2018
The Rise and Fall of Silk Road
How a 29-year-old idealist built a global drug bazaar and became a murderous kingpin.
Wired, 2015
Wired, 2018
The Wild World of Extreme Tourism for Billionaires
The Titan tragedy highlights the burgeoning trend of cavalier high-net-worth individuals exploring some of the most inhospitable places on Earth.
Wired, 2023
