Peter Rojas
Co-founder, Engadget
Peter Rojas is the cofounder and editor-in-chief of Engadget, which is a daily weblog covering gadgets, consumer electronics and personal technology. He is also the cofounder of Joystiq, a weblog which covers video games. Rojas has worked as a contributing editor at Cargo, an editor-at-large at Sync, a technology editor of VMan, and a columnist for The Guardian, writing on emerging technology. He is a frequent contributor to a variety of publications both on- and off-line and appears on radio and television regularly as a technology commenter. Rojas was educated at Harvard University and the University of Sussex. He lives in New York City.
Rojas talks about moving from California to New York, starting Gizmodo and Engadget and finding his voice as a blogger.
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Rojas talks about the evolution of his career, and using his interests in technology as the basis for his work with Engadget.
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Like capitalism, cutting-edge technology is really, really good at aggregating the sum of what’s available and what’s wanted.
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It’s really about mobbing to a hydrogen-based economy, Rojas says.
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Rojas talks about why his eating habits and the philosophy behind it all.
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Rojas would like to sit down with Al Gore.
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Rojas talks about how technology has made culture more widely available than it ever was before.
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Rojas talks about if the American political system is broken.
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It always comes back to what we think is natural, says Rojas.
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It’s a question of available human talent and the cost of production, Rojas says.
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There’s value in Internet chatter, Rojas says.
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The Web facilitates an intimacy that would be hard to create in real life, Rojas says.
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YouTube and MySpace make previously frustrating processes go much more smoothly, Rojas thinks.
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Rojas points to new technologies, and their ability to change human life for the better, as a source of great hope.
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Rojas says it has to fulfill some sort of function.
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