Wired USA, November/December 2025
205 x 275 mm, 88 pages
San Francisco, US
Published 10 times a year
Global editorial director: Katie Drummond
‘Democracy dies in darkness’
The US edition of the original tech magazine from Condé Nast.
This is the ‘Politics issue,’ covering the concerns over tech giants’ complicity and celebration of Donald Trump.
Steven Levy's reflects and theorises the dark shift within Silicon Valley, formerly a countercultural, people-first technological nucleus in the 1980’s, to an appeasement of corrupt power and how this has affected the new wave of tech employees. Opening the story with a villain-like illustration of Elon Musk and his thousands of satellites, Noah Shachtman analyses the race of SpaceX’s competitors to attempt to outdo Musk and the underground political pursuit of Starlink access and how it has acted as a weapon within recent global conflicts; Shachtman asks ‘Can anyone stop him?’.
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