You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without Pokémon.
In July 2016, David Sims described the path from Pokémon Red and Blue to Pokémon Go.
Around the time you were born, scientists announced the successful cloning of Dolly the sheep.
In June 2002, Robert A. Weinberg wrote that cloning had detrimental effects on other areas of research.
You were born in February of 1997. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 6 times as old as you.
The year you were born, Robert D. Kaplan wrote about the troubling long-term prospects for democracy in a post-Cold War world.
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At 4 years old, you were part of the generation most shaped by 9/11.
The conflicts and displacements touched off around the world by the attacks have been reverberating for the majority of your life. “This ‘war’ [on terrorism] will never be over,” wrote James Fallows, a few years after the towers fell.
Your life can be divided into two halves: before and after iPhones.
In November 2016, Bianca Bosker described how a former Google product philosopher was working to redefine the relationship between consumers and technologies like the iPhone.
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This is what Hollywood thought teenagers looked like the year you became one.
Pretty Little Liars premiered in 2010.
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When you turned 13, you witnessed the revolutionary fervor that transformed the Arab world in 2010, a movement led by your generation.
When 26-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire, he ignited a tinderbox of protests that continue to roil the Middle East, and kindled the beginnings of democracy in Tunisia.
Around your 18th birthday, the Russian politician Boris Nemtsov was assassinated.
In March 2015, Kathy Gilsinan wrote about the policial career of Boris Nemtsov.
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In 2016, Simone Biles, who was born the same year as you, led the U.S. Olympic women's gymnastics team to win gold at the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. With 19 Olympic and World Championship medals, she is the most decorated American gymnast in history.
In the July/August 2016 issue of the magazine, Meghan O'Rourke wrote about the history of athleticism and American gymnastics.
By the time you turn 27, experts at the Pew Research Center warn that there will be no "surveillance-free spaces."
In December 2014, Adrienne LaFrance wrote about how the way we see privacy will change over the next decade.
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