Look Inside WIRED’s March 2018 Issue
Facebook's two years of hell, Crispr as a conservation tool, and more.

Jake Rowland
Adam Ferriss01AI Is My Shepherd
Essayist Virginia Heffernan explores the short history of technology worship.
Matt Dorfman02Solving March Madness
How a sports prediction site is using an evolutionary algorithm to derive the perfect bracket.
Martin Nicolausson03Fresh Starts
From blasts of high-intensity blue light to radio-wave bombardment, a look at new tech for everlasting shelf life.
Dreamscape Immersive04Get Experienced
In Los Angeles, a new location-based VR company wants you to feel adventure like never before.
Israel G Vargas05Worlds Apart
*Ready Player One* hinges on a virtual universe that encompasses everything—so why aren’t our real-life VR companies thinking the same way?
Charlie Schuck06Fetish: Leica CL
Sophisticated street photography in a stealthy package.
Eddie Guy07Facebook’s Two Years of Hell
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s struggle to figure it all out.
Jake Stangel08Process of Elimination
Conservationist Karl Campbell wants to use Crispr to eradicate island predators. It’s not brutal like poison, but it could transform our power over nature.
09About the Cover
That bruised Mark Zuckerberg? That’s a photo-illustration created by Jake Rowland, a New York City–based artist known for his composite portraits. He mashed together an existing image of Zuckerberg with a photograph of a hired model—shown here in makeup—whose features resemble that of the Facebook cofounder and CEO.
TopicsAMP Stories
Inside the Two Years That Shook Facebook—and the World
How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
Nicholas Thompson and Fred Vogelstein
Enter the Dreamscape: Location-Based VR Gets a New Player
There’s far more immersive potential in a dedicated VR facility than what’s currently possible in your living room.
Peter Rubin
Crispr Will Transform the Way We Eradicate Invasive Species
Some conservationists want to use gene editing to eliminate island predators. It's not brutal like poison, but it could revolutionize our power over nature.
Emma Marris
How to Videoconference Correctly at Work or From Home
Whether you’re Zooming it in or not sitting down on the job, here’s how to do it right.
Adrienne So
Inside Elon Musk’s Midterm Spending Spree
This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss where Elon Musk’s PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against the designer behind Muse’s logo.
Zoë Schiffer
30 Tech Books Worth Reading and Gifting
Give the techie in your life access to the inner workings of the companies and characters shaping Big Tech.
Simon Hill
AI Agents Are Media’s New Favorite Audience
As agents go mainstream, some publishers are hoping that people will pay for content tailor-made for AI—not humans.
Kate Taylor
Kevin Roose Didn’t Use AI to Write His Book About AI
The author of The AGI Chronicles says his book “was written by a very tired, overworked, under-slept human being.”
Katie Drummond
We Got Hot and Heavy With Meta’s Muse—and Baffled by Apple’s HomeView
This week on Uncanny Valley, we dive into an unexpected Muse feature, shadowy spending from the largest pro-AI super PAC, and men’s tendency to lie about how much they know about AI.
Brian Barrett
Please Let the Internet Die
Online spaces are captured by oligarchs and saturated with slop—and they’re exacerbating humanity’s worst impulses. It’s time to start over.
Miles Klee
Maybe Chatbots Shouldn’t Get to Say ‘I’ or ‘Me’
MIT professor Sherry Turkle warns that people have become dangerously enmeshed with chatbots.
Steven Levy
Men Can’t Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI
More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard study claimed to recognize AI leaders who were, in fact, totally fictional.
Kate Taylor