*Struggling with the malaise. Because, after 25 years of WIRED, boy is that malaise every thick-on-the-ground.
*I would probably go to this if I was anywhere near it, it actually sounds kinda good.
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Do you feel that too? That malaise that stretches its soul-sucking tentacles toward us through our news feeds and our televisions (do we still watch those?) and even slipping into our Insta comments. (Duck! A trolling tweet almost hit you upside your head.) The climate, good lord. The heads of state with dictatorial inclinations and scary tech in their hands. Facialrecognitiondeepfakes. The shitposting. Does anyone who’s not a venture capitalist or a communications professional ever have something good to say about tech anymore?
At WIRED, this stuff makes us woozy, and not in a good way. Because our natural state, the stuff of WIRED-evolutionary-tendencies, is to find our way to a better place via the brilliance of science and technology, in the minds of people who know how to point it at the future and say we can do better. Humans can build things that are great. In fact, awesome stuff is being created right now, right over there.
Which is why from November 7 to 10, WIRED is bringing together a tenacious group of those folks—people who inspire us, who remind us that we’ve overcome the malaise before and that we are, in fact, overcoming it right now. At our second annual WIRED25 festival, in San Francisco, we’ll have conversations with tech leaders and science luminaries, heads of organizations (from the NSA to Slack), and kids hellbent on fixing our climate. And science fiction writers, actors, and creators. The event also happens in harmony with WIRED’s November print issue and our 2019 list of 25 people who are using science and tech to make the future we all want to live in....
