louis: my partner, jane metcalfe and i started "wired" project in 1991 and launched into the american market in january of 1993 as bill clinton was taking over as president of the united states. notably, al gore was talking about the information super highway. it was a generational change that was occurring on the political level and for -- on the larger scale on the cultural , technological level there was a massive revolution going on. peter: do you remember in that first issue what some of the articles were? what some of the products were that you were talking about? louis: we had camile paglia in an interview with stewart brand talking about technology, talking about culture. we had a story about japanese otaku, who are obsessive japanese young men basically who go crazy -- go very deep dive into obscure or weird little subcultures. we had a story on education. how american education was the last soviet left on the planet. it is all organized locally and yet the results are abysmal. at that time, gross spending was was on the order of $500 billion. we had a broad collection of sto

louis: my partner, jane metcalfe and i started "wired" project in 1991 and launched into the american market in january of 1993 as bill clinton was taking over as president of the united states. notably, al gore was talking about the information super highway. it was a generational change that was occurring on the political level and for -- on the larger scale on the cultural or technological level there was a massive revolution going on.

>> guest: my partner jane metcalfe and i started wired project in 1991 and launched into the american market january

louis: my partner, jane metcalfe and i started "wired" project in 1991 and launched into the american market in january of 1993 as bill clinton was taking over as president of the united states. notably, al gore was talking about the information super highway. it was a generational change that was occurring on the political level and for -- on the larger scale on the cultural

there's a neo-biological revolution that is coming that by parker, jane metcalfe, is focusing on inner media startup called neo-a life which is all about genetic editing and crispr and genomics, et cetera. there's the blockchain. there's space. there's the energy revolution. i'm not just talking about green energy. i talk about fracking, talking about moving general from higher carbon to higher hydrogen content in fuels and the new nuclear stuff. they're a bunch of new revolutions that are occurring that will have major impacts on the society over the rest of this century. we are only seeing a look of it. all of it is based on the fact that we have now computers and centers and networks all over the place that a gathering data and doing big data analysis of it. ai, augmented intelligence, i prefer to call it by the artificial intelligence is intelligence we are going to be using in network computing to enable us to better perform tasks come to do tasks we never did before in collaboration with technology. it's part of the natural evolution of our species to incorporate these new tools