We didn’t have much money when we launched Wired back in January of 1993, but we needed to get the word out somehow. (If you want part of the history of that period, read my piece “Get Wired,” which I published earlier this year.) That all changed with Wired’s new editor, Katie Drummond, who took the reins two years ago. “At WIRED, we once saw ourselves as chroniclers, even champions, of an industry that seemed to transcend politics,” Drummond writes in her introduction to the issue. “This year, though, we’ve been clear about where we stand: We’re profoundly concerned about the United States’ authoritarian turn and the tech industry’s complicity in Trump’s actions.