{"id":1381,"date":"2012-08-29T13:08:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T17:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinking.is\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2024-07-11T10:59:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T14:59:25","slug":"thick-wired-thin-wired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.daed.com\/?p=1381","title":{"rendered":"Thick Wired, Thin Wired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Daedalus has grown enough in the last few years to be honored again as one of the fastest-growing Western Pennsylvania companies by the<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daed.com\/news.tt2?id=64\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener\">Pittsburgh Business Times<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Because of this growth, space is getting tight. So, we\u2019re upgrading to a more efficient desk system in the office. As part of this, I\u2019ve been clearing out stuff around my desk, stuff accumulated over a dozen years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">This indoor archaeology uncovered a <em>Wired<\/em> magazine from September 2000 and a relatively svelte <em>Wired<\/em> from January 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The <em>Wired<\/em> from 2000 features an MIT engineer on the cover and is close to a half inch thick (.45 inches).\u00a0The <em>Wired<\/em> from 2010 features Alec Baldwin on the cover, has a smaller footprint, and is .16 inches thick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Does this represent the demise of the technology industry? The demise of magazines? Or is a thinner magazine, like a thinner cell phone, a good thing?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Would a half-robot MIT engineer on the cast of <em>30 Rock<\/em> save NBC?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">I don&#8217;t know what it means. I&#8217;m just the guy who measures the magazines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Back to the dig.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinking.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/wiredTHICKNESSsmallwide1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1389\" title=\"A decade of different in WIRED magazine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thinking.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/wiredTHICKNESSsmallwide1.jpg\" alt=\"WIRED magazine covers from a decade apart\" width=\"538\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daedalus has grown enough in the last few years to be honored again as one of the fastest-growing Western Pennsylvania companies by the Pittsburgh Business Times. 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