Annalee Newitz

science writer, New York Times contributor, and author of the forthcoming book “Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age”

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Editor-in-Chief of io9.com, a website devoted to science fiction and science

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With a pandemic and economic collapse, how to rethink cities and social systems?

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