If "tech", as you define it here, was doing things that were good for people, would a party-apparatus publication be necessary?

This is obvious, of course, but rarely do socially valuable innovations require captive media to substantiate them to the body public. When the body public actually wants to hear about them, there's money to be made by educating them.

Real "are we the baddies" energy here.

And fill it with even more ads and clickbait articles.

VC tend to invest in things going the opposite way.

It will be interesting to see if the revival of the printed Rock & Roll magazine Creem https://www.creem.com will find enough Boomer nostalgia to succeed. If so, then maybe PopSci too. Not holding my breath, however.

HN eats that lunch