![]() “The company wants to have people sharing their life through live streams, through posts, through likes, through emojis – really just sharing as much of their lives with other people as possible,” explains Burgess. ![]() One of its proclaimed values is transparency. The company has proven enormously disruptive, fundamentally changing how people interact online. The story follows Mae Holland, a recent graduate who lands a job at a tech giant called The Circle. It’s apposite, then, that one if his favourite audiobooks is The Circle by Dave Eggers, a parable about the need to hold the internet at a critical distance. His remit is broad, reporting on artificial intelligence, robots, politics science – or, as the WIRED’s cover often puts it, simply “the future as it happens”. ![]() After a detour into business publications, he arrived at WIRED. ![]() There he learned what he describes as the “grubby” side of the trade: door knocking, talking to families who had lost children, the kind of thing that’s important but not necessarily fulfilling. Burgess trained as a journalist at the University of Sheffield before working at a press agency in Birmingham. ![]()
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