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25 Years of WIRED Predictions: Why the Future Never Arrives
- coldtea 8y agoThe future arrives and certain people are able to predict it quite well and get it more right than wrong (from Arthur Clark to Marshall McLuhan). The problem is that WIRED predictions are just based on the latest thing some industry hypes (the hydrogen fuel-cells, the AI revolution, the VR revolution, 3D cinema, and so on), as opposed to a serious analysis of long term trends.
- coldtea 8y agoThe future arrives and certain people are able to predict it quite well and get it more right than wrong (from Arthur Clark to Marshall McLuhan). The problem is that WIRED predictions are more often than not merely based on the latest thing some industry hypes, as opposed to a serious analysis of long term trends.
- richliss 8y agoUntil about 2 years ago I'd been a subscriber to Wired since about 2000 and for some reason I realised that I hadn't read any for about 3 years and they were gathering dust in a pile. I decided to start reading the oldest ones with the benefit of 3 years worth of knowledge and the cynicism of getting older and I realised Wired is the tech Barnum of the modern era - they operate in a bubble and chose to focus on people and startups that reflected themselves and massively oversold the maturity and potential of both with world-class photography and graphic design, hooray for everything positivity and either a naive or corrupt desire to champion businesses because writers felt that it would show how PC they were rather than the underlying fundamentals of the tech or company (Theranos especially). I cancelled my subscription. Once you start reading Hacker News you don't need Wired any more.