2008-11-17
The Wired Past/Future
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Phil Gyford has been uploading old Wired UK covers to Flickr today. Wired US, of course, has complete archives online, but the UK spinoff isn’t quite as well served. Thankfully, Yoz Grahame has all the UK-specific articles, and now Phil’s covers are preserved along with them.
However, it’s the US content that I’ve been looking at today. Here’s Steve Jobs, in Wired 4.02 (US):
When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.
There’s so much more back then I could quote from, but it’s probably best if I just let you go off and find things yourself.
Condé Nast are giving the idea of a UK version of Wired another go next year, but somehow I don’t think it’ll be as exciting as it was back in the nineties.
