The Last Temptation of WIRED

All good things come to an end, right? What was Conquest’s Second Law – That the behavior of an organization can best be predicted by assuming it to be controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies?

Yeah, that would explain a lot of what I’m seeing.

I remember back in the 1990s, WIRED magazine was the public razor’s edge of the digital age. More than just about technology, it was also a lifestyle magazine showing geeks and nerds, especially autistic ones, to be the rebels leading us towards broad, sunlit uplands. Neuromancer come to life. A libertarian utopia built on 1s and 0s.

Wow have things changed.

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