The internet has gone terribly wrong, or so common wisdom has it. AI has salted the earth with factory-made frankenwords. Online spaces are besieged by bad actors, from roving groypers to troll militias to tyrannical oligarchs. Identity thieves, lie peddlers, and revenge pornographers infest every corner of cyberspace.
WIRED is also part of the problem. Exactly 30 years ago this month, we let the genie out of the bottle when we launched HotWired, our first website... HotWired was improv, a startup, an acid test. And it was the web's keystone.
There was no inevitability about the web. But of the choices, it looked the most promising. Back then, it was possible to be optimistic about the future.
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