The History of Wired Magazines

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Wired is like the California ideology on steroids and it is like brash and proud they know the future everybody else is an idiot who doesn't get it. There's no room really in Rosetto's wired for admitting that they got it wrong. They have these little moments where every once in a while people will point out like yeah this past six months been wild six months from now. This all might go away and like suck.com was also snarky as hell in a very like bloggy I'm all sort of like pre-gocker style. So you have those moments where they're all at least Like look a scans and say do we really need to believe our own

Paris Marx is joined by Dave Karpf to discuss Meta’s misguided attempt to turn Facebook into a metaverse company, how Wired Magazine has evolved, and why the tech billionaires are destroying the world.

Dave Karpf is an Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University. He’s also the author of The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy and Analytic Activism: Digital Listening and the New Political Strategy. Follow Dave on Twitter at @davekarpf.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

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Dave wrote about the history of WIRED Magazine’s future predictions and why VR never dies.
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Meta’s legs demo wasn’t real.
Douglas Rushkoff’s new book Survival of the Richest looks at how the rich are trying to protect themselves from the crises they’re making worse.
Science fiction books mentioned: Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One, and William Gibson’s The Peripheral.