Wired is a full-color monthly magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993. It reports on how technology affects culture, the economy, and politics.

Its editorial stance was originally inspired by the ideas of Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan, credited as the magazine's "patron saint" in early colophons. Wired has both been admired and disliked for its strong libertarian principles, its enthusiastic embrace of techno-utopianism, and its sometimes experimental layout with its bold use of fluorescent and metallic inks.