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Nick Bilton is a special correspondent for Vanity Fair and the author of Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal. He is a former technology and business columnist for the the New York Times and lead writer for its Bits blog.
The paradox of automation Many American workers are panicked about automation, for good reason. Computers and robots are replacing more and more men and women. The upside is that technological change creates new jobs at the same time it takes old ones away -- but there's a kicker. The new jobs are very different.
Utopia and Arcosanti It's been 500 years since Thomas More published his great work of social and urban philosophy, Utopia. More's vision inspired the ideal cities of the Renaissance, the garden city movement, Le Corbusier's modernist City of Tomorrow, as well as the Israeli kibbutzim and the hippie communes of the 1970s.
Driverless cars are here We've been hearing about Uber's new driverless fleet of cars in Pittsburgh, and whether human driving will become a thing of the past. Critics say neither the infrastructure nor the cars will be ready for prime time anytime soon. Tech columnist Nick Bilton begs to differ.
Is Silicon Valley in a Tech Bubble? The last time this many Silicon Valley startups saw this much money, it was hot and heavy for a time. But the inevitable breakup was devastating. The tech bubble burst in 1999. And lots of people lost their shirts in an instant. Now the dreaded word “bubble” is on lips in Silicon Valley again. Could it burst?
Keeping Your Car Safe from Electronic Thieves Nick Bilton is the technology columnist for the New York Times , and he lives in LA's Los Feliz District. Recently, his neighbors suffered a series of car break-ins — with no broken glass on the pavement and no scratches on car doors due to locks that had to be jimmied. When it happened to him, he set out to solve the mystery.
Intolerance Over Intolerance? Two weeks ago, Brendan Eich was appointed CEO of Mozilla, maker of the popular Firefox web browser. Yesterday, he resigned after a firestorm had erupted over a $1,000 donation he made in 2008 to the campaign for Prop 8, California’s anti-gay marriage initiative. 70,000 people had signed a petition calling for him to step down.
Google's Secret Lab for the Future "In a top-secret lab in an undisclosed… location where robots run free, the future is being imagined." That's not the tease for a new movie but the lead on a news story. That secret location is in the San Francisco Bay Area and nobody is talking about it for attribution.
A radical act of rezoning; UK prepares for Brexit Planners are calling Minneapolis the most radical city in America, after a vote to allow duplexes and triplexes to be built on lots previously zoned for only single-family homes. What are the chances something like this could happen in LA?
Nadine Labaki on her Oscar-shortlisted film ‘Capernaum’ Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki cast street children as the stars of ‘Capernaum,’ her gritty tale of 12-year-old Zain, who runs away from home and ultimately sues his parents for condemning him to a life of poverty and desperation.
