Wired USA - 03.2020

IN ITS FIRST DECADE OF LIFE, THE WEBSITE appeared in as many punch lines as head- lines. The Office’s Michael Scott called it “t ...

pedians—trolling, doxing, hacking, death threats. The site’s parent organization has repeatedly owned up to the situation and ta ...

might be the key to building what he called the “World Brain”; Thomas Edison bet on wafer-thin slices of nickel. But for most pe ...

the universe kept growing, leading to attrition and abbreviation. It was a zero-sum game in which adding new articles meant dele ...

083 From there, though, many volunteers are drawn deeper into the site’s culture. They discuss their edits on Talk pages; they d ...

084 than by a single intelligence. But while accuracy binds the trust between reader and contributor, eccentricity and elegance ...

RICHARD COOKE (@rgcooke) is a writer and author whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Paris Re ...

from T H E Deliver us, Lord, ENDLESS H U S T L E ...

In the Midwest, Christian entrepreneurs are banding together to find relief from the corrosive grind of startup life—while some ...

tate other people’s creativity by building a technology that brings a whole community into the design process. If that sort of t ...

and tech organizations, has worked in tech on both coasts, including a stint in Boston. “When my wife and I moved back to the Mi ...

Crossroads, the congregation that helped usher Reynolds toward his conversation with God, has in recent years become a major emb ...

of Preaching.” (A tenet of the church’s manifesto holds that “beer = authenticity” and that the church should “do anything short ...

By mid-2014, Brunk, Reynolds, and Metzner decided to trans- form the community into something more formal: a nonprofit business ...

images shift to buildings with boarded-up windows, empty strip malls, and plastic bags snagged in barbed- wire fences. “Maybe Go ...

Lakewood Church—long associated with prosperity gospel teach- ings—declared that the US was “not simply a capitalistic society” ...

Simple pleasures that helped get this issue out: Thumbing through a new book on a lazy week­ end; breathing in cool, foggy air i ...

EVERYONE ALIVE GIVES ME A PENNY. IN SIX WORDS, PITCH THE NEXT GREAT CROWDSOURCED PROJECT: SMELT DECOMMISSIONED WEAPONS INTO MUSI ...

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