Emma Street

• Emma has been passionate about computers since the 1980s, when her family bought an Apple computer, and she taught herself to code in BASIC.
• She loves new tech but has a sentimental attachment to her 2010 Kindle 2, whose lack of flashy features she finds soothing.
• She's fascinated by the rapid growth and availability of AI. However, she struggles to reconcile her fondness for constantly asking LLMs to do weird things for her amusement with her concerns about the environmental impact of AI technology.

Experience

Emma is a freelance content writer and editor who, prior to working for SlashGear, contributed technology articles to Techopedia, TechRadar, and Tom's Guide. She wrote as a side hustle for thirty years before taking the leap into full-time writing a few years back. Before that, she worked as a software engineer and technical writer in the fintech industry. She has written about a huge range of subjects besides tech, including films, relationships, and tea. She runs a tea blog called TeaFancier.com and has also authored several romance novels. Her first published article was in Prediction magazine in the mid-1990s and was about the magical properties of herbs.

Education

Emma returned to education in her 30s, studying at the Open University while working full-time and achieving an upper second-class honours BSc in Computing.