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People
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Organizations
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Locations
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Events
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Relationships
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Document Information
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Biographical profile / government exhibit
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1.67 MB
Summary
This document is a biographical profile of Chris Anderson, detailing his transition from a physicist at Los Alamos to the editor of Wired magazine (2001-2012) and founder of the drone company 3DR. It highlights his background in physics, his perspective on the tech industry, and his entry into the drone hobbyist community via his children. The document contains a House Oversight footer, suggesting it is part of evidence collected for a congressional investigation.
People (2)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Chris Anderson | Subject |
Former editor of Wired, founder of 3DR and DIY Drones.
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| The Feynmans | Reference |
Referenced as romantic heroes in physics.
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Organizations (13)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| 3DR |
Chris Anderson's company.
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| DIY Drones |
Open-source aerial robotics community founded by Anderson.
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| Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory |
Location of an early drone experiment.
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| American Anarchist movement |
Mentioned in relation to Anderson's ancestry.
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| Wired magazine |
Publication run by Anderson from 2001 to 2012.
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| National Magazine Awards |
Awards won during Anderson's tenure at Wired.
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| Los Alamos |
Place where Anderson worked/studied physics.
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| Manhattan Project |
Historical reference.
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| CERN |
Referenced as a potential career path for physicists.
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| Iowa State |
Referenced as a potential academic placement.
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| Crays |
Supercomputer manufacturer.
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| Conde Nast |
Publisher that asked Anderson to take over Wired.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Implied by footer stamp.
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Timeline (3 events)
Unknown
Buzzing Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory with a self-flying spy drone.
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Locations (6)
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Buzzing incident location.
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Physics work location.
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Physics research center.
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University reference.
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Where classmates went to become quants.
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Historical context.
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Relationships (1)
Conde Nast asked me to take over the magazine
Key Quotes (4)
"like any properly humbled roboticist, I don’t call myself one"Source
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"I turned out to be a bad physicist"Source
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Quote #2
"Most of my classmates went to Wall Street to become quants, and to them we owe the subprime mortgage."Source
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Quote #3
"This magazine changed my life."Source
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Quote #4
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Chris Anderson’s company, 3DR, helped start the modern drone industry and now
focuses on drone data software. He got his start building an open-source aerial robotics
community called DIY Drones, and undertook some ill-advised early experiments, such
as buzzing Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory with one of his self-flying spies. It
may well have been a case of antic gene-expression, since he’s descended from a founder
of the American Anarchist movement. Chris ran Wired magazine, a go-to publication for
techno-utopians and -dystopians alike, from 2001 to 2012; during his tenure it won five
National Magazine Awards.
Chris dislikes the term “roboticist” (“like any properly humbled roboticist, I
don’t call myself one”). He began as a physicist. “I turned out to be a bad physicist,” he
told me recently. “I struggled on, went to Los Alamos, and thought, ‘Well maybe I’m not
going to be a Nobel Prize winner, but I can still be a scientist.’ All of us who were in
physics and had these romantic heroes—the Feynmans, the Manhattan Project—realized
that our career trajectory would at best be working on one project at CERN for fifteen
years. That project would either be a failure, in which case there would be no paper, or
it would be a success, in which case you’d be author #300 on the paper and become an
assistant professor at Iowa State.
“Most of my classmates went to Wall Street to become quants, and to them we
owe the subprime mortgage. Others went on to start the Internet. First, we built the
Internet by connecting physics labs; second, we built the Web; third, we were the first to
do Big Data. We had supercomputers—Crays—which were half the power of your phone
now, but they were the supercomputers of the time. Meanwhile, we were reading this
magazine called Wired, which came out in 1993, and we realized that this tool we
scientists use could have applications for everybody. The Internet wasn’t just about
scientific data, it was a mind-blowing cultural revolution. So when Conde Nast asked me
to take over the magazine, I was like, ‘Absolutely!’ This magazine changed my life.”
He had five children by that time—video-game players—who got him into the
“flying robots.” He quit his day job at Wired. The rest is Silicon Valley history.
focuses on drone data software. He got his start building an open-source aerial robotics
community called DIY Drones, and undertook some ill-advised early experiments, such
as buzzing Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory with one of his self-flying spies. It
may well have been a case of antic gene-expression, since he’s descended from a founder
of the American Anarchist movement. Chris ran Wired magazine, a go-to publication for
techno-utopians and -dystopians alike, from 2001 to 2012; during his tenure it won five
National Magazine Awards.
Chris dislikes the term “roboticist” (“like any properly humbled roboticist, I
don’t call myself one”). He began as a physicist. “I turned out to be a bad physicist,” he
told me recently. “I struggled on, went to Los Alamos, and thought, ‘Well maybe I’m not
going to be a Nobel Prize winner, but I can still be a scientist.’ All of us who were in
physics and had these romantic heroes—the Feynmans, the Manhattan Project—realized
that our career trajectory would at best be working on one project at CERN for fifteen
years. That project would either be a failure, in which case there would be no paper, or
it would be a success, in which case you’d be author #300 on the paper and become an
assistant professor at Iowa State.
“Most of my classmates went to Wall Street to become quants, and to them we
owe the subprime mortgage. Others went on to start the Internet. First, we built the
Internet by connecting physics labs; second, we built the Web; third, we were the first to
do Big Data. We had supercomputers—Crays—which were half the power of your phone
now, but they were the supercomputers of the time. Meanwhile, we were reading this
magazine called Wired, which came out in 1993, and we realized that this tool we
scientists use could have applications for everybody. The Internet wasn’t just about
scientific data, it was a mind-blowing cultural revolution. So when Conde Nast asked me
to take over the magazine, I was like, ‘Absolutely!’ This magazine changed my life.”
He had five children by that time—video-game players—who got him into the
“flying robots.” He quit his day job at Wired. The rest is Silicon Valley history.
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