I run into a lot of incorrect predictions when reading through the WIRED archives. What should…
Author: David Karpf
Virtual Reality Is the Rich White Kid of Technology
For decades, VR has failed to live up to expectations. Yet somehow, it keeps receiving more…
The Electoral Politics of Trump’s Diagnosis
No one knows what the president’s case of Covid will mean for the end of the…
Biden’s Path to Victory Does Not Bode Well for Voters
Like Trump in '16, he coasted on free media coverage. If that's the future of campaigning,…
The 10,000-Year Clock Is a Waste of Time
It's less a monument to long-term thinking than a Gilded Age distraction.
How to Hack an Election (Without Touching the Machines)
In 2018, we should worry less about bot-nets and more about the oldest political tricks: misdirection,…
When, Exactly, Did Politics Become a Tech Story?
Early WIRED could ignore politics because its writers were focused on imagining the future. Today, the…
Today’s News Crises Are Different, But Will Never Be Entirely New
The media has always been untrustworthy, frivolous, and immune to change. But inside these cycles of…
25 Years of WIRED Predictions: Why the Future Never Arrives
To write the history of how our culture thinks about tomorrow, one obsessed academic read every…