Kevin Kelly on how the iconic tech magazine Wired was conceptualised: “We thought of it as a magazine that appeared as if it had been mailed from the future…. We created a magazine we wanted to read.” Co-founder and former publisher Louis Rossetto “We weren’t prisoners of objectivity. Our mission was to deliver reality…. We…
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What if that logo had looked like this?
On Wired, Sonia Zjawinski writes of how Ruth Kedar came up with what has now become one of the world’s most easily recognised logos. Kedar met Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page through a mutual friend nine years ago at Stanford University, where she was an assistant professor. Page and Brin, who were having…
No news is good news unless it is bad news?
One of the hackneyed charges against Western hacks in India is that they diligently separate the wheat from the chaff and report the chaff. India’s successes, triumphs and achievements, we are told ad nauseam, are ignored by the “nattering nabobs of negativism” who can only see death, disease and despair; floods, famines and failure. KANCHAN…
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