MY FIRST COLUMN as editor in chief of WIRED ran in issue 21.03, exactly four years ago. I didn't train as a writer, but I've found real creative pleasure in these issue notes-though the actual words never come as easily as I (or my editor) wish they might. This is the hardest one yet, because it's my last. ¶ wired is a place designed to find the future, and my final issue is all about the future of what we do here every day: the news. We set out, as always, to avoid navel-gazing clichés and instead to understand what's actually going to change in light of 2017's new challenges and dangers. You're going to read important thinking-Gabriel Snyder on the technology that drives The New York Times, Samanth Subramanian on the Macedonian trolls who propagate fake news, and Andy Greenberg on protecting journalists and sources. The world continues to change, and wired continues to cover that change even as it plays a part in it. ¶ I have never not marveled at the sheer journalistic talent and raw human genius assembled at this place, which, 25 years after its founding, is a Silicon Valley institution-older than most of the companies and many of the people we cover. I started at wired as creative director in 2006, left to run digital strategy for our parent company, Condé Nast, in 2010, and came back 24 months later as editor in chief. But the truth is, I fell in love with wired early on, from afar. When you're a sci-fi nerd with design and engineering aspirations, it's hard not to be swept up in talk of planetary-scale computing and autonomous flying robots.
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