Wired USA, March/April 2026
204 x 276 mm, 88 pages
San Francisco, US
Published 10 times a year
Global editorial director: Katie Drummond
‘For Future Reference’
The US edition of the original tech magazine from Condé Nast.
This March/April 2026 edition of Wired is dedicated to China, and marks a decade since their political leaders pledged that—by 2025—the country would have become a global superpower by matching the quality of their exports to their rate of manufacture. The issue takes a fascinating deep dive into how our lives are being augmented by what some have dubbed as the ‘Chinese Century’—a play on Henry R. Luce’s ‘American Century’, coined to describe America’s dominance in the 20th century—acknowledging the ever-increasing ubiquity of popular Chinese products sold en masse to consumers worldwide.
Inside, you’ll find investigations into the rise of smart watch use among Chinese children as young as five and the growing number of Gen Z women head over heels for their AI boyfriends. Elsewhere, readers are introduced to the drowsy humanoid robot set to dominate our future workforce.
Also inside: an interview with He Jiankui—aka ‘China’s Frankenstein’—whose creation of the world’s first gene-edited babies landed him in prison for three years back in 2019, a snapshot of viral Chinese products photographed by Peisan Huang, and commentary from American journalist Noah Shachtman on the contemporary space race rivalry between China and the US.