You don’t need to be an alarmist to recognise the world is cooked—quite literally. Between climate catastrophes, looming recessions, nationalist upswells, and the uncertainty of the AI revolution, it’s a fucked-up time to be alive. As we were making this #magazine, a 25-year-old lunatic set off a car bomb at a fertility and IVF clinic in California. The gist of his manifesto: More people shouldn’t be born. At i-D, we staunchly believe in youth culture in all its forms. We’ve celebrated new ideas in their infancy, be it rave culture, non-GMO foods, It Girl-dom, or even the internet. Now, the final frontier: infancy. Welcome to the world, #GenBeta! (Yes, that’s the name for people born in 2025 or later.) We got you a birthday present: advice from 26 of the world’s luminaries and one computer. Read them all at the link in bio.