Wired-A Romance

Louis Rossetto’s Wired was that rarest of birds: a magazine that actually changed the way people thought about the world. Gary Wolf brilliantly brings to life the romance of Wired’s early days, the sheer audaciousness of Rossetto in action, and the galvanizing effect of the magazine’s overamped, self-consciously revolutionary vision of technology. At the same time, he shows how ill-equipped Wired was to deal with success, and how the magazine got swept away by the excesses of the very boom it had helped create.