Was not written for such though. I don't see any science mag appealing to kids these days. (except maybe environmental ones)
Right.
I've long harbored the belief that the one of the factors which gave rise to the environmental movement was a horror among a certain segment of society as they observed the way science/technology/science fiction took hold of the minds and hearts of the young in the '50's and '60's (it may have started well before that but, of course, I wasn't here).
My theory is that the environmental movement attempts to preempt the romantic attachment that many young people might otherwise develop for such things as space travel, aviation... in general, energy-intensive interests that might transform the world (and the nearby planets) into a different sort of place. Sort of a mass-psychology Luddite movement, if you take my meaning.
Of course, it won't work. But it's interesting to think about. Perhaps there's a novel of some sort in there.
(steely)
My opinion is that it's hard to write science fiction for kids any more because they're so far ahead of us. My kids get bored with the old buzzing around the galaxy with hypothetical hyperdrive. They're looking at what's happening with artificial reality, genetic engineering, etc. and you don't see anyone writing it.
In a hundred years people will be born who will live close to 1000 years. By the end of their lives people could be living for 100,000 years.
Who's writing about this?