Funny that the mouthpiece for the instantaneous digital age is a print monthly, but tis so.
Wired magazine is the self-styled house organ of the Internet, the lifestyle magazine for techies.
They're not only on the cutting edge of technology, but politics, too. Now, before the Internet, there was Virtual Reality. We were all going to have our heavy 3-D VPL headsets and our Lycra input gloves, plus or minus an optional genitalia interface for the more intrepid. People wrote popcult books about how VR was going to isolate us all from each other and end civilization, or let us see the ray-traced faces of God. Eventually, people figured out that the folks behind VR were no less superficial or more industrious than the artistic avant-garde usually is, and lost interest.