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In her new memoir, Burn Book, Kara Swisher cites a 2014 profile that dubbed her “Silicon Valley’s Most Feared and Well-Liked Journalist.” She might prefer to downplay the first and emphasize the second. Some people would switch that around. But there is no dispute about Swisher’s impact: When it comes …

Marina Hadjipateras, the dashing American venture capitalist, has only one word of derision. She speaks it softly and rarely. Conservative. A family can be conservative. An investment, a choice. The way she uses the word, it’s never political. It’s also never a good thing. The first time I hear Marina …

It no longer makes sense to speak of free speech in traditional terms. The internet has so transformed the nature of the speaker that the definition of speech itself has changed. The new speech is governed by the allocation of virality. People cannot simply speak for themselves, for there is …

From the authors of the New York Times bestseller 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, also excerpted exclusively in WIRED. 18:46 April 15, 2054 (GMT‑5)Arlington National Cemetery That night in her apartment Julia Hunt ordered in sushi and watched the coverage of Slake’s botched press conference on her …

From the authors of the New York Times bestseller 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, also excerpted exclusively in WIRED. 18:12 April 03, 2054 (GMT‑3)São Paulo Chowdhury checked into his hotel, an anodyne Grand Hyatt booked by the staff at Neutronics due to its proximity to their clinic. …

From the authors of the New York Times bestseller 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, also excerpted exclusively in WIRED. 03:37 March 25, 2054 (GMT‑5)Columbia Heights Metro Station Julia Hunt had finally returned to sleeping in her apartment, a drab studio on 11th Street NW that she rented …

From the authors of the New York Times bestseller 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, also excerpted exclusively in WIRED. 21:15 March 23, 2054 (GMT‑5)Rosslyn, Virginia B.T. had proven easy enough to find. When he went dark, Lily figured he was in one of the world’s three gambling …

From the authors of the New York Times bestseller 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, also excerpted exclusively in WIRED. 01:41 March 17, 2054 (GMT+9)Okinawa Middle of the night, alone in his lab, was just how he liked to work. News of Castro’s death was everywhere, and he’d …

From the authors of the New York Times bestseller 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, also excerpted exclusively in WIRED. 12:02 March 12, 2054 (GMT‑5)São Paulo to JFK He knew the land beneath him carried scars, but when observed from such a height those scars appeared to vanish. …

Before I sit down to talk to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, he apologizes for the noise. The evening’s guests have been doing sporadic sound checks all day: Peso Pluma running through his opening number, Offset ad-libbing over a backing track. I passed by throngs of One Direction fans to …