It’s not uncommon to see early 2000s kids lament about being too young to have experienced 2000s pop culture, or what it would have been like being a teenager in the early nineties. Of course, while expressing sorrow over not being, we may have misdirected our nostalgia, overlooking a core theme of this time period that we did get to experience, lying somewhere in the realm of cyber-optimistic futurism. No, not the highly stylized Y2K pastiche aesthetics you see today – we’re talking about a real techy, geeky, clunky feel. Do you remember your fifth grade science textbook? Its block letters and sketches scattered throughout is our inspiration. This edition of Scatterbrain Magazine looks to the future the way we tend to the past – with the optimism and inventiveness of a new millenium. We embrace a return to our sentiments of the past as we enter a new age. Within these pages, anything is possible. To all you artists, writers, and dreamers, keep learning, keep inventing. This is your mission. Don’t let Big Tech steal your geeky Spy Kids dreams, wave goodbye to AI, and make something from scratch – lengthy, tumultuous, unpredictable. Think about the galaxy as a place for exploration, not an earth-escape-route for the 1%. Let us be your new home, your new community. This is SB5, welcoming you in – we’ve got gadgets and gizmos aplenty.
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It’s not uncommon to see early 2000s kids lament about being too young to have experienced 2000s pop culture, or what it would have been like being a teenager in the early nineties. Of course, while expressing sorrow over not being, we may have misdirected our nostalgia, overlooking a core theme of this time period that we did get to experience, lying somewhere in the realm of cyber-optimistic futurism. No, not the highly stylized Y2K pastiche aesthetics you see today – we’re talking about a real techy, geeky, clunky feel. Do you remember your fifth grade science textbook? Its block letters and sketches scattered throughout is our inspiration. This edition of Scatterbrain Magazine looks to the future the way we tend to the past – with the optimism and inventiveness of a new millenium. We embrace a return to our sentiments of the past as we enter a new age. Within these pages, anything is possible. To all you artists, writers, and dreamers, keep learning, keep inventing. This is your mission. Don’t let Big Tech steal your geeky Spy Kids dreams, wave goodbye to AI, and make something from scratch – lengthy, tumultuous, unpredictable. Think about the galaxy as a place for exploration, not an earth-escape-route for the 1%. Let us be your new home, your new community. This is SB5, welcoming you in – we’ve got gadgets and gizmos aplenty.
thank you to our sponsors:
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