Wired

Manufacturer:	Conde Nast Publications Inc.
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Wired

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Wired Magazine

This is, without a doubt, one of the most exciting, visually and mentally stimulating magazines I have ever read. It not only covers issues, but gives one a sense of wonder about the world and optimism about the excitement of the future. It is the antidote to the despicable nightly news, which tells of nothing more than the relatively few, but awful things that happen in the world each day.

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Decent Magazine for the Cyberpunk Age (Today)

For years Wired has excelled for its superb reports of cutting-edge, innovative technology and ideas which are important parts of our current cyberspace internet technological world. Not surprisingly, it has often featured excellent writing by leading cyberpunk fiction and nonfiction writers, most notably William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. For these reasons alone it is well worth reading. But is it worth subscribing? Like several other reviewers, I am greatly concerned with Wired's "guerrilla marketing" techniques. Without question, these practices should be regarded as highly unethical and worthy of investigation by your local state attorney general or Federal Trade Commission. So my advice to you is simply caveat emptor, let the buyer beware.

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Always Interesting

I get lots of magazines. Some are in decline, TIME & P.C. for example, but I have found others that have an uncanny ability to hold my attention. WIRED is all about holding attention. WIRED also manages to avoid the prurient and I hope it continues to go for readers with ideas rather than exercise the bottom-feeding tactics resorted to by competitors and which have made television news an utterly useless exercise. There is no better magazine out there for staying current with the technological state of the art.

Magazines haven't changed--they have to offer something not available anywhere else in order to stay alive. WIRED has managed to find a seemingly impossible niche as the commentator of choice on cutting-edge technological and societal trends--which, interestingly enough, are most often inextricably combined. Some articles will be about technological advances, others scientific, some will be purely about the people behind the science--others about how the subject is changing society. It is a measure of the skill of the production team that WIRED has stayed ahead of the trends and manages to hit topical issues regularly and with unmatched depth. The newsweeklies can't keep up--they are dinosaurs in comparison.

WIRED has good editors. The articles that you hope will go long are usually long--longer than other magazines. Short observations are just that, short. Now, I thank all those reviewers who have identified the "north shore" scam, but overanxious marketing aside I look forward to each and every issue. It is always interesting.

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