The issue focused on stories about tech companies facing technological innovation issues that fall outside their core businesses. There were concerns over technology technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence; internet technologies such as bitcoin; cloud computing technologies such as virtual private servers (VPNs); mobile technologies such as smartphones and tablets; software engineering technologies such as AI and robotics; scientific research technologies such as astronomy, mathematics and physics; medicine and science journalism; academic researchers and academics; scientists and engineers in academia; doctors and medical professionals; philosophers and religionists