Wired magazine
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| Editor-in-Chief | Scott Dadich |
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| Former editors | Louis Rossetto |
| Categories | Business, technology, lifestyle, thought leader |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Total circulation (June 2013) |
851,823 |
| First issue | March/April 1993 |
| Company | Condé Nast Publications |
| Country | United States 37°46′51″N 122°23′45″W / 37.7808°N 122.3957°W |
| Based in | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 1059-1028 |
| OCLC number | 24479723 |
Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics. Owned by Condé Nast, it is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and has been in publication since its first issue in March/April 1993. Several spin-offs have been launched including: Wired UK, Wired Italia, Wired Japan and Wired Germany.
In its earliest colophons, Wired credited Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan as its "patron saint." From its beginning, the strongest influence on the magazine's editorial outlook came from techno-utopian co-founder Stewart Brand and his associate Kevin Kelly.
From 1998 to 2006, Wired magazine and Wired News (which publishes at Wired.com) had separate owners. However, Wired News remained responsible for republishing Wired magazine's content online due to an agreement when Condé Nast purchased the magazine. In 2006, Condé Nast bought Wired News for $25 million, reuniting the magazine with its website.
Wired is known for coining the terms "the Long Tail" and "crowdsourcing", as well as its annual tradition of handing out Vaporware Awards which recognize "products, videogames and other nerdy tidbits pitched, promised and hyped, but never delivered".
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