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My Internet Happy Place: Gather, an Antidote to the Sterile Professionality of Zoom

At the end of a year in which we could not explore much IRL, team OneZero is sharing our favorite places we found online.

Jan 1, 2021

Jan 1, 2021

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Amazon’s Plague Year

As small businesses closed and layoffs hit, Amazon expanded its power — despite a string of crises and worker uprisings

Dec 21, 2020

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Dec 21, 2020

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The Best Tech Books of 2020 Are All About Giving Power to the User

These 21 books about technology and its impact on society are crucial to understanding our fractious future

Dec 11, 2020

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Dec 11, 2020

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When the Arecibo Telescope Is Demolished, It Will Take an Era of Space Exploration With It

Arecibo is the last gasp of ambitious, publicly funded efforts to understand the universe

Nov 20, 2020

When the Arecibo Telescope Is Demolished, It Will Take an Era of Space Exploration With It

Nov 20, 2020

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This Week, Remember That Literally Any Future Is Possible

If anyone has any ideas about what the hell is going to happen this week, it’s speculative fiction writers

Nov 2, 2020

This Week, Remember That Literally Any Future Is Possible

Nov 2, 2020

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The Future of Decent Work Depends on the Failure of Prop 22

If the Uber-backed ballot initiative passes, it may lay the groundwork for unrest not seen since the onset of the Industrial Revolution

Oct 30, 2020

The Future of Decent Work Depends on the Failure of Prop 22

Oct 30, 2020

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Your Complete Guide to Dreaming Up a Survivable, Sustainable Future

How ‘visionary fiction’ can be used as a framework for building a better world for all humans

Oct 23, 2020

Oct 23, 2020

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RIP Eddie Van Halen, Accomplished Technologist

The late rock god was also an unsung tech genius

Oct 8, 2020

RIP Eddie Van Halen, Accomplished Technologist

Oct 8, 2020

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Amazon Uses Automation to Hide a Disastrous Record of Workplace Injuries

As robotization scales up, so do injuries

Sep 30, 2020

Amazon Uses Automation to Hide a Disastrous Record of Workplace Injuries

Sep 30, 2020

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The First Scientific Utopia Still Matters 400 Years Later

‘New Atlantis’, Francis Bacon’s pioneering work of proto-science fiction, has just been reissued. Here’s why it still matters.

Sep 1, 2020

The First Scientific Utopia Still Matters 400 Years Later

Sep 1, 2020

Brian Merchant

Brian Merchant

Senior editor, OneZero, books, futures, fiction. Author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone, founder of Terraform @ Motherboard @ VICE.

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