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Who Reads Wired?
Wired readers want to know how technology is changing the world, and theyre interested in big, relevant ideas, even if those ideas challenge their assumptionsor blow their minds. Wired readers are generally familiar with computers and the Internet, but this is definitely not a computer magazineWired wont teach you how to upgrade your RAM. Instead, its a magazine about science, art, adventure, online culture, business, philosophy
and bright shiny beautiful gadgets. Each month, more than 2 million smart, savvy readers come to Wired for clean, clear writing with a wry twist.
What You Can Expect in Each Issue:
- Start: In Start, readers are treated to quick bites of information on everything from provocative innovations (in-flight Wi-Fi, anyone?) and new technologies (who won the DVD format wars?) to cultural shifts (why are Korean schoolgirls buying mini refrigerators?). Looking for tips on touching up your digital pictures or resetting a dislocated shoulder? Start has those, too. The stories are presented in smart, irreverent language with Wireds signature visual flair.
- Test: Wired has covered gear and gadgets since its very first issue. Every month, Test gives readers the definitive take on the hottest products on the market, from the newest HDTVs to the slimmest notebook computers. The best tech writers in the business put the gear through a rigorous review and rate it from 1 to 10. Mix in Wired's trademark visuals and humor and you've got the most useful, entertaining coverage of products anywhere.
- Play: Now that popular culture is Wired culture, this is the best place to turn for the skinny on whats cool, quirky, and fun. The section kicks off with Playlist: the top 10 newest, coolest things in the Wired world. In the rest of Play, editors delve deeper into movies, art, books, games, design, and online entertainment. Plus, it delivers the big picture so readers understand why these things matter. Wondering about cognitive science behind Halo 3? Curious about the cutting-edge engineering that goes into making a Top 40 single? The answers are in Play every month.
- Endgame: Part contest, part game, and totally engrossing, the Endgame puzzle challenges Wired readers to think deeply, both on and off the page.
- Features: Each month, the editors open a window to the future of technology, business, entertainment, science, and culture. We recently devoted 22 pages to the thorny questions to which scientists still don't have answers: Why do we sleep? What causes ice ages? Do forests actually speed up global warming? Other recent topics: How Apple does so well by behaving so badly; the race to build the 100-mile-per-gallon car; 12 ways to supercharge your brain; and how personal genomics could change the way you live.
Magazine Layout: Outstanding print design is about the seamless integration of compelling stories and fresh ideas with expert typography, arresting photography, and sharp illustration. Inventive visual architecture has been part of the magazines DNA from the beginning. Fifteen years on, Wired is still the place to turn for eye-popping images and a style that sets the pace for the rest of the magazine design world. . Click on any image below to see select pages from Wired:
Contributors: Wired editor in chief Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail, writes regularly for the magazine. Among our other writers are Steven Levy, Joshua Davis, Steven Johnson, Jeff Howe, Lawrence Lessig, Daniel H. Pink, Bruce Sterling, Clive Thompson, and Gary Wolf. Contributing photographers and artists include Dan Winters, Platon, Nigel Parry, Andrew Zuckerman, Robert Maxwell, Bryan Christie, Tobias Frere-Jones, Jonathan Hoeffler, and Jason Lee. Past Issues: Awards: Under the leadership of editor in chief Chris Anderson, Wired has been nominated an unprecedented six consecutive times for the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, winning the industry's top prize in 2005 and 2007. In 2008 Wired was nominated for three NMAs, for General Excellence, Design, and Best Section. In 2008 the magazine was nominated for 18 of the top awards from the Society of Publication Designers.
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WIRED uncovers the most surprising and resonant stories about the people, companies, technologies and ideas that are transforming our lives. Whether it's technology...business...global politics...new media...arts and culture...the environment...or the best new products, WIRED is there, on the front lines of the 21st Century. Find out what's next with WIRED!
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 tech background not necessary to enjoy September 27, 2002
67 out of 69 found this review helpful
You don't have to have a Ph.D. in computers, math, or engineering in order to enjoy this magazine: I don't possess such credentials, and I think Wired is outrageously good. The appeal of Wired is information on cutting-edge technology, delivered in a highly visual, understandable, and often entertaining format. A subtle sense of humor pervades the magazine with features such as "Return to Sender" - a contest in which Wired readers attempt to send the weirdest possible item in the mail to the magazine's San Francisco headquarters; or "Japanese Schoolgirl Watch" - which tracks the latest trendy gadgets favored by one of the world's most trend-obsessed demographic groups. Wired endlessly scrutinizes and ponders on the intersection of technology, humans, and society in its terrific articles. The articles are always interesting, and well-written, with topics such as artificial sight research, or the shenanigans of MIT's Blackjack Team in Las Vegas (9/02 issue); parents of extremely ill children, united via the Internet in their challenges to the medical industry (9/01); or a profile of the Ibot Transporter "inventrepreneur," Dean Kamen (9/00). Wired is a beautifully presented, outstanding magazine. Try one issue - you might get hooked!
Read about the future before it arrives! October 26, 2003
Manny Hernandez (Bay Area, CA)
22 out of 25 found this review helpful
I have been a consequent Wired reader since 1994. Subscribing on and off, depending on the quality of the content (the design has almost always being impeccable), I find Wired has been going through one of its best times in the course of the past year or so. Since they've always been ahead of the curve, presenting the future 'now' by means of a thoughtful combination of to-the-point introductions to a topic or piece of gear with lengthy interviews or articles dealing with the hottest topics in technology and our lives at large in the years and decades to come, it could be argued that the world -at the fast pace it is going- is providing them with an overabundance of content ideas. But as a publication, you could very well, take a very interesting topic and put together a lame writing around it, so there is great merit in what the Wired team is doing.As an example, let me share the general layout of November 2003's issue:
-Big focus on Open Source (remember Linux and its creator, Linus Torvalds?), and how it's beginning to permeate all areas, beyond software.
-A feature on the latest on studies about sleep and wake-up drugs.
-Quite a few interesting articles on copyright infringement and what a famous media powerhouse is doing, by going in the oposite direction, becoming a P2P freedom fighter.
-The future of batteries and the electrical grid.
-Politics and how they are getting deeply affected by... blogs!
-The big bang... and why it never stopped. And the interesting topics go on and on, written by some amazing contributors, ranging from Wired's long standing collaborators, such as Bruce Sterling, or some recently incorporated "talent", such as technology columnist Dan Gillmor or Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig. Some of you might be wondering: what's the point in subscribing to a magazine like Wired, when I can get their content online a few weeks after the magazine is out. First of all, the subscription is SO unexpensive ($1/issue) that you shouldn't be questioning it. And second, and most important, this is a magazine (like I mentioned before) that you just don't like for its content (which is indeed available online shortly after publication), but also for its splendid layout and access to advertising for last minute products, the type that a typical Wired reader would love to learn about before they become a part of the mainstream. So get going and subscribe to Wired, so you can read about the future before it arrives!
Hands down, my favorite magazine! January 18, 2005
Christian Hunter (Austin, TX and Santa Barbara, CA,)
55 out of 70 found this review helpful
I value my time, and, probably like you, get news and information from multiple sources (internet, magazines, newspapers, and TV being the principle venues). As far as magazines go, Wired is my favorite by far; I still look forward to getting it after 5 years, and on the off chance it doesn't arrive in the mail on time, I slap around my mailbox in dissapointment.
It's impossible to not be intrigued by whatever cutting-edge technology they're following, the stories of the pioneers who are developing it, and the social implications of their deployment.
But Wired is about much more than new and interesting technology, for me, it's about perspective. Wired always takes an adventurous and unorthodox view on todays social, scientific, and political topography. But most refreshingly, they observe the world optimistically.
How rare is that!
I'm abundantly aware of the misery of this planet, and in case I momentarily forget, I can cycle through any of the 10 news channels I have on TV for a stinging dose of painful reality. Wired doesn't keep you immune to the challenges of our day, but rather than "objectively" explore them, they help me view the news through a lens of productive possibility.
Valuable indeed.
In addition, every issue contains a "radar update of cool"; cool music, movies, books...cool gadgets for home and lifestyle; Wired is - aside from being my favorite magazine - also, in my humble opinion, the coolest.
Enjoy,
Christian Hunter
Santa Barbara, California
Be in the Know July 15, 2007
Janet Boyer (Pennsylvania)
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
I'm a 30-something female who is NOT a techie geek. However, I've been a subscriber to Wired magazine for several years now, and I love it (and so does my husband)!
Obviously, there are some articles I don't relate to at ALL (nor do I understand them). However, the majority of articles are engaging and downright fascinating. For example, the most current issue (Jul. 2007) features a cover story of Transformers (the movie). But what I DIDN'T realize (until I read this issue) is that many fans were concerned about the choice for director ("Please God, don't let Michael Bay screw this up.") because many children of the 80's (of which I am one) saw Optimus Prime as a father figure, especially for the latch key kids.
These fans were concerned that Bay, known for his blow-em-up action flicks, would disregard the emotional component of Transformers--which is (apparently) important to many.
Let me share a few of the stories from the current issue to show you the kind of goodies you get in each issue:
* Sail of the Century - Venture capitalist Tom Perkins wanted a new boat, so he built the biggest, riskiest, most technologically advanced sailing machine on the planet
* The Whole Earth, Catalogued - How Google Maps is changing the way we see the world
* The Human Advantage - Computers are great at crunching numbers. But when it comes to tasks like translating languages or identifying beauty, the cortex still beats the CPU
* The Trials of Hans Reiser - A brilliant but irascible coder. A missing wife. Incriminating blood. And a host of questions. How a Linux geek became a murder suspect.
Of course, there's also must-have gears and gadget profiles as well as reviews. Rants from readers are featured, as well as thought-provoking essays. (This month's essay? Why the U.S. needs a high-speed rail system.)
Perhaps my favorite monthly feature, though, is Artifacts from the Future. These faux "ads" from the future are clever--and slick as spit. You'd never know they were jokes at first glance!
So if you're interested in trends involving computers, religion/spirituality, art, music, transportation, the environment, gaming, pop culture, medicine, journalism, sports, psychology and more...you'll probably enjoy Wired. The interviews are utterly intriguing (this month, Wired did a mini-interview with Nicole Lapin, one of the youngest anchors in CNN's history), and the graphics are smart and appealing. Even the ads are (usually) fresh and compelling (well, when they're not aimed at twenty-something corporate males...)!
Still a great magazine March 3, 2002
14 out of 18 found this review helpful
My favorite magazine is probably still Wired magazine.I have been a subscriber almost continuously from around 1994 or so. Despite a history of excessive advertising and embarrassing flag waving about the glory of the internet economy Wired has consistently informed and entertained me with quality articles about the things that I enjoy: internet, software, business, technology, politics, travel, etc. It has also been a major innovator in terms of the visual style of magazines. Their style was as new and different at its introduction as was MTV when it first appeared in the 80s. The articles are largely targeted to 20 - 40 year old upper-middle-class, liberal technology industry oriented people, although I doubt there is anything in its content that conservatives or non-tech people would find offensive. My issue goes straight into the toiletside magazine rack every month when it arrives.
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