Wired (magazine)
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| - | :The edge has gone from Wired and Hotwired, probably never to return. A certain created reality has been packaged, sold, and is now being marketed like Titanic. Heck, it's being marketed with Titanic, just in the way MSNBC is being marked with Deep Impact. -- http://www.atl.ualberta.ca/downes/wired/welcome.htm | + | :The edge has gone from Wired and Hotwired, probably never to return. A certain created reality has been packaged, sold, and is now being marketed like Titanic. Heck, it's being marketed with Titanic, just in the way MSNBC is being marked with Deep Impact. -- http://www.downes.ca/wired/intro.htm |
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Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993[1]. Owned by Condé Nast Publications, it reports on how "cyber" and internet technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics. It was "the ultimate geek magazine" and technotopian.
Wired's editorial stance was originally inspired by the ideas of Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan, credited as the magazine's "patron saint" in early colophons. Wired has both been admired and disliked for its strong libertarian principles, its enthusiastic embrace of techno-utopianism, and its sometimes experimental layout with its bold use of fluorescent and metallic inks.
From 1998 to 2006, the magazine and Wired News, which publishes at Wired.com, had separate owners. Throughout that time, however, Wired News remained responsible for reprinting Wired magazine's content online due to a business agreement made when Condé Nast purchased the magazine, but not the website. In July 2006, Condé Nast announced an agreement to buy Wired News for $25 million, reuniting the magazine with its website.
The Rise and Fall of Wired Magazine
by Stephen Downes, June 14, 1998
- The edge has gone from Wired and Hotwired, probably never to return. A certain created reality has been packaged, sold, and is now being marketed like Titanic. Heck, it's being marketed with Titanic, just in the way MSNBC is being marked with Deep Impact. -- http://www.downes.ca/wired/intro.htm
