The Tech Issue

One of the best things about being a journalist is meeting new people and learning new things with each story you write. But even journalists tend to stick to their “beats” and report on topics they know a lot about.

However, when you are the editor-in-chief and creative director of a magazine, you have the opportunity to really challenge yourself. If you’re brave (or crazy – the jury is still out), you can go way outside your comfort zone and create a themed issue that requires you to spend weeks researching and experimenting just to finalize the stories you’ll feature. And that’s exactly what happened when we decided to do a tech issue.

To be clear, we’re not ignorant when it comes to technology. But compared to the experts, there was a lot we didn’t know. So we learned. Now we’re full of fun tech facts. Here are our top 20:

• Online shopping can help save our planet.
• An automatic soap dispenser and GPS actually have something in common.
• AI probably won’t take over your job, but someone who knows how to use AI could.
• Ask yourself, “What would nature do,” before you purchase tech for the garden.
• One of our neighbors was part of the duo who developed the Spotify algorithm.
• Even the experts have to turn their computers off and back on sometimes.
• Susan Trumpbour doesn’t miss typewriters, cassette tapes or pink leg warmers.
• Kat Schrier is a badass.
• If you let Perplexity guide your day, you might end up baking squishy magenta umbrella cupcakes.
• AI is “more of an answer engine than a search engine.”
• Social media influencers don’t always give good relationship advice.
• With AI, you can have a conversation with a historical figure.
• You might wander into a community garden if you go a day without technology.
• Invite Swaroop to your next brainstorm, but not to a family dinner.
• The app I’m Getting Arrested was invented by a guy in Pleasantville.
• When normal computers give up, quantum computers step in.
• Always have a startup.
• Video games can be a catalyst for change.
• A  brilliant woman in Pound Ridge developed a platform that provides important environmental data.
• Roosevelt Island has been transformed into an innovative tech hub.
• Bonus: You can design an entire tech issue without a single layout featuring 0s and 1s.

You can learn all these things and more in this issue. We promise.

Gia Miller & Justin Negard

Editor-in-Chief & Creative Director / Co-Publishers