Word: wiredness
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In Malaysia, where Nicholson arrived in 1992, he was what the CIA calls a declared asset, meaning the U.S. informed the Malaysian government, though no one else, that he was a spy. In the expatriate community, he made little impression except as a genial neighbor and a leader of the...
Washington, 1948: John Kennedy and Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson and Joe McCarthy and all the others were back from their war. It had shown them the world, and an apocalypse or two, and the possibilities of the new global power that would become the stuff of their careers, their medium...
The birth of Wired proved that. "Who wants to read about the life-style of nerds?" people asked Louis and his partner Jane Metcalfe. It took them two long years to raise backing for the magazine. The pundits of publishing said Wired shouldn't be a print magazine. "They said...
I do. I like Louis and his gray ponytail (recently clipped off). I like the way he always wears sneakers, even to formal dinners. I like the unapologetic conviction with which he speaks about the great millennial Wired enchilada: the collapse of governments and economies under the weight of a...
Wired invented geek mystique and made the promise of the wired world palpable. Perhaps if Louis had tried to go public a few months earlier--at the height of the Net mania he helped create--I would have been the latest, um, thousandaire. But he didn't. It's a...