Issue 14
Kids
That is no country for old men. Silicon Valley is notorious for turning don’t trust anyone over thirty from a counterculture slogan into a business strategy, which can get awkward as its most famous boy geniuses start to go grey.
This issue examines the relationship between youth and technology. Relationships, plural, we should say. Because, as the cliché goes, it’s complicated. One of the first myths to dispel is that only one kind of connection is at stake. Kids can hard to see clearly; childhood is made to mean so much.
editorial
chatlogs
Youth of Today: Jasmine Sun, Jasmine Wang, Alan Luo on Coming of Age in Silicon Valley
A conversation about learning to speak the languages of Big Tech.
Being Sad on the Internet: Ysabel Gerrard on What Young People Do Online
How do you do, fellow kids?
features
assets
Draw What You Think Alexa Looks Like
Melanie Hoff
Disembodied AI assistants get physical forms.
patches
We Don’t Need No Innovation
Phil Nichols
A fight over the meaning of “disruptive technologies” in schools.