Wired Print Magazine

For many years wired was THE magazine of a technological future, presenting technologically driven material as a world changing force. This was nerdiness without submission, and one could be interested in technology without retreating from the world. The world was becoming technology.There was plenty of technocratic bombast, many things that were written about died in the cradle, and Wired was as closely linked to the dot-com boom as any publication, but few magazines could grasp the present, and grasp ideas of the future so well as Wired.Wired also had a countercultural edge because it, simply because the people involved with it were willing to play with, or at least touch, any interesting and new idea that fell within Wired's orbit. This was not a magazine for everyone, but it fit its niche well.Lately something in the tone of the magazine seems to be changing. Rather than reporting from the inside of the technologically driven world, it seems as if Wired is increasingly chasing celebrities, and involving itself with things that are trendy in the media world.Wired is not gone, per se, but frankly, when you see Martha Stewart on the cover, apparently because she is famous, and has hired people to integrate, in no novel or overwhelming way, a website with her other media activities, it is safe to say that Wired is becoming disconnected with its audience. While many articles are still interesting, the number of good ones is declining, and the tone of the magazine has shifted. One gets a strong feeling reading it that many of the staffers used to work at Cosmopolitan or Time, and are really more interested in faddish popular crisis and fashion than they are in technology. I can't yet say that Wired is bad, and there is no good substitute for it that I know about, but unfortunately, it seems as if the magazine is heading downhill.

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Wired used to be a lot better than it is now. They seem to be more formulaic with their selection of articles these days whereas 5 or 7 years ago they where more organic and risky. there may have been a dud issue once in a while but their topics made me contemplate ideas and parts of society or technologies that I either didn't know to exist or wrongly thought that I wouldn't be interested in. Now they have some mandatory topic categories that they need to cover in every issue. They even have an obligatory crime/suspense article which while mildly interesting seems to have no place in wired. The media/entertainment section is tired. I skip it completely. I think Wired doesn't know what it wants to be. Is it for geeks or nerds? I serves both of us better than any other magazine out there, don't get me wrong, but I fear it is on a trajectory that will ultimately cause me to not renew one year.If you are trying to decide wither or not to subscribe, just go to a bookstore and read a copy. If you like it, it is pretty much the same every issue. different content but same formula.

Wired on Kindle is great. The articles offer a fascinating look into the future, the writers know their stuff, the graphics are top-notch. For $5 a year (the selling point), you couldn't get a better subscription deal!That said, there are some negatives. Firstly, you can't get the magazine on desktop. Which is a bummer because I'm not too keen to squint at tiny sans-serif text on a mobile screen (the images and graphics also don't get their due).To read legible, large text, you have to switch between 'Magazine Mode' (where you are looking at a magazine page about the size of your mobile screen) or Text Mode (plain, colorless but readable text). There is no middle ground feature which sucks.Bottom line is it's just $5/year. You can't do better than that so I guess the cons are worth the price.

Lots of great tech centric articles, but not just gear jabber - but social, politicaland genrral topics related to technology and it's role in the world. It's always an interesting read, though there seems to be a strange, thankfully infrequent, focus on sex tech. (Eeeeeewwww, seriously?)

BUT... one or two years ago, about one out of every three articles have been politically biased to the extreme left, and their political agenda is blatantly obvious and extremely obnoxious. Wired (or some of its authors) are clearly anti-Elon, anti-Meta, anti-anything-related-to-republicans (and the list goes on). I am seriously considering canceling my subscription.

Some of the best and most relevant journalism out there good writing.

I had purchased an item from Amazon and was offered Wired on a Special Offer. I thought, "What the heck"! Glad I took the bait. Thank YOU, Amazon!Wired HAS to be one of the most interesting magazines I have read in my sixty-six years. I read it front to back. Occasionally, an article my not be within my scope of interest, but by and large, most articles are interesting. Normally, the main cover article is the longest...but it is also the best written and most interesting article. Every month I ALWAYS have at least one article to "rant" about. VERY informative.The last, long cover article I read was about the "coming of age" of robots. Oddly, not long before reading the article, I was recently pondering that question myself. What WILL we as humans DO, when robots do it all for us? The article answered my question. The "Industrial Revolution" 1760 ~ 1840 caused considerable consternation, posing by many, the same question I had. Sewing machines? Oh, the ruination! We adopted and lived through it...as we have ever since.When I started reading my first issue, I thought, "Nah, not going to like this." I was wrong. By the time I got to the end of it, I was hooked. I renewed for for three more years, almost immediately after reading my very first issue.Great magazine! I HIGHLY recommend it.

There is really little point paying for this as:1. Almost every single article is freely available on their website2. You CANNOT use their purpose designed digital editions outside USA & territories.This defeats the purpose of paying for a Digital Edition in UK & Ireland IMHO.