Dearest Internet mammal : This is it . After years of faithful Robert William Service , I ’m leave io9 . If you ’re reading this , you already know how exceptional this topographic point is , so I ’ll do my good to keep this brief and spare you my gushing praise . But , if you ’ll permit me just a diminutive bit of gushing , I ’d care to say a little about what form here has meant to me .
I ’ve thought a lot about how well to carry this , and I ’ve adjudicate on a personal anecdote that actually predates my time working here . To be honest , I do n’t believe anyone at io9 even know about this . Anyway , here goes .
In college , I wrote my English dissertation on Margaret Atwood ’s Oryx and Crake . My central point was that the novel should be show not as a sentence of scientific overreach , but a challenge to engage in pragmatic conversation about the future tense of biological research and its software . The essay was stuffy , wordy , and more than a piffling self - authoritative — but at its core group it was affirmative .
I bring up all this for three reason . The first is that io9 , thanks to its wonderful editorial scope and uncommonly penetrative readership , has always been a place to engage in smart , critical , and , crucially , optimistic conversations about skill and its app — i.e. exactly the kinds of conversation I mean Oryx and Crake was design to further .
The second is that I had io9 ’s virtues in mind , specifically , while indite my thesis ; I even citedthis clause by Annalee Newitznear the root of my essay . My dissertation advisor was also a longtime devotee of the site , which play no small role in my approaching her to work with me . Basically , I lived and take a breather this piazza .
Which brings us to reason routine three : Not long after I submitted my thesis , by one of the most fortuitous play of fate in my life , Annalee offered me an internship at io9 . A few months after that , she offered me a line of work .
For more than four year now , it ’s been a job I ’ve been happy , eager , and gallant to teem my lifespan into . So thank you , Annalee , for giving me this unbelievable chance . Thank you also to Charlie Jane Anders , for being the mainstay of this website . Thank you to everyone I ’ve ever ferment with at io9 , Gizmodo , and Gawker Media at orotund , and to Meredith Woerner , Cyriaque Lamar , Lauren Davis , and Rob Bricken , particularly , for sustain and advising me throughout my time here . And finally , thank you to the lector , the commenters , the ODeckers , and the Sunday Puzzlers , for making this site the incredible community of interests that it is .
I ’m give-up the ghost to miss the hell out of all of you , but it ’s time for me to move on . In two weeks , I ’ll be taking overdesign coverage at WIRED , where I ’ll be splice science , speculation , technology , and wonderment with the channel ’s deoxyribonucleic acid . If you want me , that ’s where I ’ll be — and you may always comeyell at me on Twitter .
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