Ideas

WIRED World

The AI-Fueled Future of Work Needs Humans More Than Ever

AI is elbowing its way into ever more jobs, but while how we work will change, people skills will still be the most important factor.

Ryan Roslansky

WIRED World

Social Media Is Getting Smaller—and More Treacherous

Ethan Zuckerman

WIRED World

A Dangerous New Home for Online Extremism

Julia Ebner

Next Normal

The Hypocrisy of Judging Those Who Become More Beautiful

Normally, correcting disadvantages beyond our control is seen as laudable. So why do people look down on individuals who alter their looks?

Sheon Han

Preferring Biological Children Is Immoral

Most people say they want their kids to be their own genetic offspring—but such a desire is in conflict with other evolving values around parenting and family.

Leo Kim

Let Venice Sink

The impulse to save everything no longer makes sense. It's time to leave the city as a monument to the dangers of global warming—and rethink our relationship to heritage.

Catherine Bennett

They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media Without Consent Is Immoral

It's typical to ask friends for permission to share pictures of them. Yet people don't extend this courtesy to strangers, either because they think nothing of it or they need to go viral at all costs.

Mark Hill

WIRED Software Review

Your Project Management Software Can't Save You

Do-everything workplace managers like Asana and Trello promise organizational utopias. But they reveal limitations that date all the way back to the factory floors of the 1900s.

Matt Alston

Google’s Search Box Changed the Meaning of Information

Web search promised to resolve questions. Instead, it brought on a soft apocalypse of truth.

Elan Ullendorff

How Signal Walks the Line Between Anarchism and Pragmatism

The privacy-focused messaging app arose from a fringe culture that emphasized individual autonomy and skepticism of authority. As it tries to go mainstream, can it escape its roots?

Kai Ye