Featured Interview With Nathan Cross
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was raised in a household where curiosity was treated as an essential life skill. Growing up, our garage was half workshop, half laboratory—cluttered with taken-apart desktop towers, breadboards, and sketchpads. Today, I live on the East Coast, where I split my time between researching frontier AI architectures, experimenting with rapid 3D prototyping, and writing for the next generation of creators. My family shares our home with an energetic German Shepherd who insists on joining every morning writing session.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
My fascination began around age eight, but not in the traditional way. I wasn't just reading stories; I was fascinated by how ideas could be codified and transferred from one human mind to another across centuries. I started writing technical guides and creative fiction in my early teens, driven by a desire to demystify complex systems—whether that meant coding an interactive game or breaking down how algorithms shape human behavior.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I read heavily across cognitive science, technology ethics, and hard science fiction. Seymour Papert's Mindstorms fundamentally shaped my philosophy that technology should be an expressive instrument for children, not an automated babysitter. I also draw deep inspiration from Neil Postman's cultural critiques, Walter Isaacson's biographies of great innovators, and Arthur C. Clarke's visionary foresight. In my own writing, I am inspired by everyday parents and teachers who refuse to let fear dictate how their children interact with modern technology.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest release is The AI-Empowered Child: Raising Innovators, Thinkers, and Makers in the Age of Generative Intelligence, published by Delgado Creative Books. It took six months of intensive research, real-world parent interviews, and testing prompt frameworks with students to complete. The central thesis is simple: in a world where artificial intelligence answers every factual question in milliseconds, the greatest gift we can give young minds is not memorization, but the discernment and courage to ask transformative questions. The book introduces the 'Socratic Sparring Method'—a practical technique parents can use to turn conversational AI into an intellectual sparring partner that challenges kids to think deeper rather than doing the thinking for them. It's a field manual designed to transition kids from passive screen consumers into active makers, thinkers, and builders.
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