It’s no accident that Spook Country references Wired almost immediately as Wired, as a lifestyle magazine, is specifically tailored not to the people who live the lifestyle depicted in Spook country (there aren’t enough of them to support a magazine, even one as full of adverts as Wired) but rather the people who wish they lived that lifestyle. Wired’s pages are full of adverts for high-end technology that you “need” from TVs to games consoles to business hotels with free WiFi and films on demand. Spook Country’s world is as aspitational as that of Wired.