Baratunde Thurston

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The Human Shield Against Technology

As our columnist, Baratunde Thurston, returns to the comedic news mines, he leaves us with insights about managing technology in our lives.

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Dead Unicorns? A Burst Bubble? How I’d Fix It: Take My Money, Please

This one bit of advice can fix everything.

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Fighting Words

Information does not want to be free the same way that I “want” doughnuts, so let’s stop thinking that it does.

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This is what happens when a Gig Economy devotee goes full time

When the poster child for Generation Flux gets a full-time job, he realizes that maybe stability isn’t the enemy.

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Do Not Fear The Robot Apocalypse

Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others are concerned about the dangers of artificial intelligence. Maybe they shouldn’t be.

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A Radical Proposal For Putting People In Charge Of Their Data

What if we got to decide when companies could access our personal information?

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Why Using Facebook, Google, And Twitter To Log Into Apps Is A Problem

What we lose by giving the social media giants the keys to our mobile, social lives.

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A Modest Proposal For Saving America’s Cities

“I could clone myself—or we could learn how to do a better job of sharing.”

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It’s Time for Tech to Embrace Prison Reform

Let’s embrace prison reform, rather than just rethink education and immigration, to help address our labor issues.

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Hopping Off The New-Device Treadmill

We have Slow Food, Slow Money, and even Slow Programming. Where is the outcry for a Slow Smartphone movement?

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