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/