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Wired June 2009: Issue Highlights

To interview the editors, or for more information on the stories below, please contact Jenna Landry at jenna_landry@wired, 212-286-6877 or Christina Valencia at christina_valencia@wired.com, 415-276-5190

COVER: The NEW New Economy, pg. 98 | Download Cover PDF (508 KB) | Download Article PDF (3.2 MB)

WIRED editor in chief Chris Anderson lays ouat his vision for the future of business: fewer conglomerates, more startups, and infinite opportunity. "This crisis is not just the trough of a cycle but the end of an era. We will come out not just wiser but different," he writes. WIRED explores Anderson's theory by looking at Detroit, Google and online collaboration.

• Beyond Detroit (pg. 100): The only way for the Big Three to survive, writes contributor Charles Mann, is to harness the innovation of hundreds of startups now working on every aspect of automotive technology. It's time for Detroit to acknowledge that the most innovative cars are no longer made in America, and allow new small-company ideas to permeate its famously top-down culture. "There's only one road to recovery," writes Mann. "Let the little guys drive."
• The Secrets of Googlenomics (pg. 108): WIRED senior writer Steven Levy explores Google's bottom-up model for ad sales, which is dictated not by firm handshakes but by hard math. "Google's enormous success lies in its secret sauce: a data-fueled, auction-driven recipe for profitability that rest of us need to start learning from fast," Levy writes.
• The New Socialism (pg. 116): A century ago, mass collective action could be organized only by state. Now we have the web. WIRED senior maverick Kevin Kelly redifines socialism for the digital age. "Wikipedia, Twitter, and Flickr are more than just social medial," he writes. "They're the vanguard of a cultural revolution."

Deadly Weapon, pg. 132 | Download Article PDF (280 KB)

In prisons across America, convicts are using smuggled cell phones to run gangs, plan escapes, even order hits. Last year officials confiscated 947 phones in Maryland, 2,000 in South Carolina and 2,800 in California. "Cell phones," says James Gondles, executive director of the American Correctional Association, "are now one of our top security threats." These guys may be in solitary, WIRED contributor Vince Beiser reports, but they know where your family lives.

Time To Cash Out, pg. 23 | Download Article PDF (748 KB)

Money has turned into a drag on the economy. To maintain our stock of hard currency, the US treasury creates hundreds of billions of dollars worth of new bills and coins each year. The cost to taxpayers hit $850 million last year. In this digital era, "money remains irritatingly analog," argues WIRED contributing editor David Wolman. "Physical currency is bulky, germ-smeared, carbon-intensive, expensive medium to exchange. Let's dump it."