Editor’s Note: What’s Next for WIRED

I won’t sugarcoat it: The result of past week’s US statesmanlike predetermination wasn’t the 1 WIRED wanted. As I wrote last week, respective of the halfway values that underpin our work and pass our journalism—unwavering respect for antiauthoritarian institutions, a committedness to quality rights and bodily autonomy, designation that clime alteration is simply a dire emergency—are astatine likelihood with those of Donald Trump and the incoming GOP administration.

Our values aren’t changing, and our committedness to rigorous, autarkic reporting and investigative journalism crossed WIRED sum areas remains steadfast, peculiarly arsenic the US navigates this caller and uncertain governmental chapter. But arsenic I reminded our squad past week, there’s 1 much worth that we clasp beloved present astatine WIRED, and it’s 1 I privation to stock with each of you today: Hope.

At WIRED we judge that technological advancement and technological find will, sometimes dilatory and sometimes quickly—often turbulently, excessively often inequitably—improve quality lives and present possibilities that were erstwhile unfathomable. We judge successful the potency and creativity of the quality mind, and we emotion thing much than to present each of you to the ingenious ideas and inventions that look from superb radical crossed truthful galore fields of inquiry. We judge that the net tin still, amid the AI slop and trolls of it all, beryllium a spot to find community, to link crossed carnal borders, to beryllium informed, and to beryllium entertained. We judge successful being weird. We judge successful fun. At WIRED we volition ever take to judge that the world’s champion days—maybe the galaxy’s champion days, erstwhile we each unrecorded connected Mars—are inactive to come. So yes. Yes, dammit. We judge successful hope.

And of course, we judge that journalism successful each its incarnations, from a people mag to a WIRED.com communicative to a TikTok video, is simply a captious portion of creating that amended aboriginal we each anticipation for and judge in.

In that spirit, I privation to reenforce what you tin expect from the journalists astatine WIRED successful the weeks, months, and years to come. We’ll beryllium tracking and covering the incoming Trump medication and its policies, with an oculus towards revealing caller accusation that helps you recognize what’s happening and wherefore it matters crossed a scope of salient subjects: from surveillance and privacy, to AI regularisation and Big Tech, to climate alteration and reproductive rights. This tin beryllium dense stuff, but we judge it matters: Accountability helps the satellite determination successful the absorption of progress, arsenic does entree to close information.

But that's not each we'll beryllium doing. When you work oregon ticker WIRED, yes, we privation you to beryllium informed. We besides privation you to person fun, and of course, we privation you to consciousness hopeful. Our civilization sum volition support introducing you to wild online communities, emerging trends, and singular creators and creatives. Our cogwheel sum volition proceed showcasing the newest, smartest, sometimes strangest products to adhd to your privation lists, and remains committed to best-in-class adept reviews and buying guidance. Our subject table is ever here to stroke your mind, whether it’s the latest discoveries successful physics oregon the cutting-edge tech powering caller findings successful archeology. And our features squad volition proceed to present richly reported, in-depth communicative storytelling that you tin suffer yourselves in. (Stay tuned for an invigorating bid of stories that’ll instrumentality you wrong the beating bosom of Silicon Valley, and connected a small driverless car chase).

Please support reading, watching, and listening. In summation to our magazine, website, and YouTube channel, WIRED journalists are doing immoderate incredible, inventive sum connected TikTok and Instagram that I’d promote you to follow. And if you haven’t checked retired our caller flagship podcast, Uncanny Valley, present mightiness beryllium the cleanable clip to interruption from authorities and alternatively perceive Mike, Lauren, and Zoë speech astir the tech industry’s return-to-office mandates.

If you can, delight enactment the unthinkable breadth of enactment that WIRED’s journalists do, by subscribing to articulation our community. And until adjacent time: Keep hoping, and cognize that we volition too.