"Our goal is to create a community of people who are interested in science and technology."

I was lucky: Vladilena Semyonovna taught us physics at school.She sincerely believed that the basics of mechanics,

She did not discriminate against those who received C's, told them how to memorize the material using the three-piece system, and told stories about the fact that in Soviet times, experiments with mercury were shown in schools and no one was able to do so.of this one died.

At the university, I was less fortunate:a physicist, an elderly grandfather, he looked in amazement at any questions through our group and showed his tongue. Apparently hinting at Einstein. As a result, we passed the optics and lasers out of pure enthusiasm, remember nothing, except that very grandfather.

"Analog" times are over when to teachGoogle and Wikipedia became us. Everything has become easier. You can google “when the Mayan civilization disappeared” or “what really happened to Challenger” and get an immediate answer. True, there are practically no guarantees that what has been written will turn out to be a proven fact.

Today, the Russian space program, the COVID-19 vaccine, and 5G are being debated online.Both supporters and opponents use the same techniques: all of this createsIt's getting harder to find information, harder to verify it, and finally, hardest of all, trusting it.

We at Hi-Tech hear you - our audience:we read comments, take into account comments, conduct our own research and argue (believe me, no less than yours!). That is why our goal now is to create a full-fledged community of people who are interested in science and technology, as well as to make the discussion more honest and reasoned. To do this, we will invite scientists, engineers and startups not only to speak up, but also to participate in disputes, answer your questions and together figure out: is everything in our world so relative? It will be a “reader - scientist - media” ecosystem, of which there are no examples in Russia yet, since almost all of our colleagues only broadcast information, preventing the hero and the audience from exchanging views or at least the opportunity to ask a question. Each of our readers will be able to become a science journalist and participate in the creation of our content.

Only in this way will we create a territory of facts andevidence-based science, a community that will confront disinformation, pseudoscience and the very “white noise” that online discussions generate. And thank you for being with us in this important and difficult matter.

Arthur Kireev, editor-in-chief of "Haytek"