[mahmud]

for Wired, "history" == "since Google IPO".

[zandorg]

Yup, Wired used to try and predict the future, but now it just reports on the recent past.

[TriinT]

And that is why Wired seems to have become Gawker or Valleywag. There used to be some good journalism on Wired in the 1990s. Now it's a geek version of Vanity Fair...