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I mostly stopped reading it in ~2021/2022, but from ~2015-2021 it was getting progressively more hostile to tech, fearful of anything new, etc.

I skimmed the online list of articles for the past few months and it does look better (but not 1993-1997 high water mark, or 1997-2021 still ok). There have been two different editors in chief since 2021, maybe that was a factor.

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That's interesting and I appreciate your response. I didn't subscribe until 2020 so perhaps I missed the downward swing and have only seen it on the up?

> I mostly stopped reading it in ~2021/2022, but from ~2015-2021 it was getting progressively more hostile to tech, fearful of anything new, etc.

It's would be hard for them to maintain the kind of techo-optimism they had in their early years, without sounding delusional, given what we've learned since.

When I think of wired I think of articles written by andrew hultkrans. I have a video of him I tried to get a discussion on, but even in 1993 he was already mentioning smart cards and tvs.