Technology and The Bay

On this episode of North Gate Radio, five reporters explore how people across the Bay Area are dealing with technology and its impact on the human experience in a rapidly changing world. You’ll hear about the repair café volunteers in Silicon Valley saving electronics from landfills, a young mother using social media to find community while facing a terminal diagnosis, the pressures of optimization on Palo Alto youth, and why Gen Z is suddenly obsessed with physical media. We close with a visit to Children’s Fairyland in Oakland to see why puppets still capture the shortest attention spans. This is a recording of North Gate Radio that was broadcast live on KALX radio station, 90.7FM. A transcript for this episode can be found at https://projects.journalism.berkeley.edu/radio/show/technology-and-the-bay/