Wired Magazine
Wired Magazine is a glossy monthly and on-line publication published in San Francisco, California. It reports on digital technology and culture, examining how they affect mainstream culture and politics. It is both admired and disliked for its strong libertarian principles and its enthusiastic embrace of techno-utopianism.The magazine was founded by American journalist Louis Rossetto and his partner Jane Metcalfe in 1993 with initial backing from Nicholas Negroponte of the MIT Media Lab among others. Wired was a great success at its launch and was compared to Rolling Stone for its innovation and cultural impact. The magazine was quickly followed by a companion website, Hotwired, a book publishing division, Hardwired, and a short-lived British edition, Wired UK.
The fortune of the magazine and allied enterprises corresponded closely to that of the dot-com boom. In late 1999 and 2000, Rossetto and the other participants in the venture twice made moves to take the company public with an IPO, but had to withdraw owing to skeptism and lack of interest within the investment community. Rossetto was eventually forced out in 2000. The current owner is New York publisher Condé-Nast. Since the crash of the dot-com boom, Wired lost a lot of its impact and has ceased to be as influential.
Over the years, Wired's writers have included, among many others, Pamela Borsook, Po Bronson, Chip Bayers, Denise Caruso, Douglas Coupland, Simson Garfinkel, George Gilder, Bill Joy, Mitch Kapor, Lawrence Lessig, Pamela McCorduck, Randall Rothenberg, Phil Patton Schrage, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, and Gary Wolf.
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