I remember this magazine cover from back in the day and it's remained lodged in my memory as 90s techno utopian insanity but hoooo boy is the body of the article a helluva punchline pic.twitter.com/sw59e5HsFQ

— 🌏🐶🦕🥳 Hieronymus Burps 🥦💥 and 68 others (@hieronymus_burp) November 19, 2021

This was the peak of 1990s optimism. I remember this and that Wired cover very well. I read the entire magazine. It wasn’t just Wired, of course, and this optimism wasn’t just techno-; this sunny positivity was absolutely everywhere in the culture then, a cozy blanket surrounding us all.

What a very different world that was.