President Barack Obama has the future on his mind-and, soon, in a guest-edited edition of Wired magazine.
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According to editorial director Robert Capps, this is the first time any sitting president has guest edited a magazine. According to Wired’s announcement, this collaboration will “create a completely bespoke issue, filled with stories, essays, conversations and concepts hand-selected by the president”. Topics for the November edition range from the personal (like precision medicine) and local (using data in urban planning) to national (civil rights), worldwide (climate change), and final frontiers (space travel). And a year ago, he wrote a column while Michelle Obama held a guest editing role at More magazine.
There will be five sections that cover personal, local, national, worldwide and finale frontiers, such as precision medicine, renewable energy, civil rights, climate change and Artificial Intelligence.
The White House is announcing today that it will be holding a White House Frontiers Conference Oct. 13 in Pittsburgh to talk about high-tech, and innovation.
“When the Founders wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, they were at the bleeding edge of Enlightenment philosophy and technology”, said Editor-In-Chief Scott Dadich. “Who better to help us explore these ideas than President Obama?”.
The Obama issue of Wired will focus on numerous same topics as the conference and hit tablets October 18 and the newsstands October 25.
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“The conference will focus on building US capacity in science, technology, and innovation, and the new technologies, challenges and goals that will continue to shape the 21st century and beyond”, the White House said in a press release.
