Lost and Not 'Found': Wired Ditches Back Page, New One Coming in October

After finally finishing this month’s Wired — you know, the one with Julia Allison on the cover — we noticed there was an ad for a Sony laptop in place of the usual “Found: Artifacts From The Future” back page.

Curious, we emailed the magazine’s deputy editor, Thomas Goetz, to learn the fate of the six-year staple:

We have decided to retire the page (it has been, I’d note, one of the rare successes in the notoriously difficult game of magazine backpages).

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