Andrew Anker (USA), is the Executive Producer of "HotWired", responsible for the development and deployment of new technologies at "Wired". Prior to joining "Wired", he spent seven years in investment banking. B. A. in Economics from Columbia University.

"HotWired" is new thinking for a new medium. We call it a cyberstation, a suite of vertical content streams about the Digital Revolution and the Second Renaissance with an integrated community space. While "HotWired" is currently bound by technological limitations that restrict bandwidth, it represents the genetic blueprint that will evolve into the overarching media environment of the next century.

At the core of "HotWired's" editorial is point of view. We are not in the content business, we are in the context business. People today don't have the time or inclination to make sense of the data flood. "HotWired" is "Wired's" answer to the need for professionalism in a new medium that has been filled until now with something that resembles public access television programming. "HotWired" is live, twitching, the real-time nervous system of the planet.

"HotWired" doesn't look like any online service out there - it zigs where all the others zag. ("HotWired's" unofficial design watchword was "war on bevelled edges".) Its content and perspective are as innovative as those of its mothership, "Wired" magazine, while at the same time being utterly different. Its community space is technologically unrivalled - the first graphical conferencing system for the World Wide Web.