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You don’t have to have a Ph.D. in computers, math, or engineering in order to enjoy this magazine: I don’t possess such credentials, and I think Wired is outrageously good. The appeal of Wired is information on cutting-edge technology, delivered in a highly visual, understandable, and often entertaining format. A subtle sense of humor pervades the magazine with features such as “Return to Sender” – a contest in which Wired readers attempt to send the weirdest possible item in the mail to the magazine’s San Francisco headquarters; or “Japanese Schoolgirl Watch” – which tracks the latest trendy gadgets favored by one of the world’s most trend-obsessed demographic groups. Wired endlessly scrutinizes and ponders on the intersection of technology, humans, and society in its terrific articles. The articles are always interesting, and well-written, with topics such as artificial sight research, or the shenanigans of MIT’s Blackjack Team in Las Vegas (9/02 issue); parents of extremely ill children, united via the Internet in their challenges to the medical industry (9/01); or a profile of the Ibot Transporter “inventrepreneur,” Dean Kamen (9/00). Wired is a beautifully presented, outstanding magazine. Try one issue – you might get hooked!
I’ve subscribed to Wired Magazine for several years, though I confess that that I don’t read every issue from cover to cover. This is a magazine best suited to Silicon Valley technophiles. There are a lot of ads for the latest gadgets, and the short articles about these new technologies appeal to more avid gadget collectors than me.

So why have I not cancelled my subscription? I keep reading Wired because of the feature articles. They are well researched, thoughtful, and clever; they often cover an aspect of the business or culture of technology that other magazines miss. I can still remember some of the best articles — an article about why FedEx is really a high tech company, an article about how fiber optic cable is laid and what that means for the economics of broadband, an article about how the European Commission’s Competition Bureau is shaping the global technology business through its regulatory authority.

If you are a technophile, you s!hould subscribe if you don’t already. But even if you’re not, you should consider it if you work in the tech sector or have an interest in how technology affects all of our lives.

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