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Andrew Leonard has been working at Salon as a technology reporter, editor, blogger and staff writer for quite a bit longer than he ever anticipated being employed by an online magazine — 15 years. He’s enjoyed the luck of becoming obsessed with the Internet just before it broke into mainstream consciousness and the housing bust just before it precipitated a global economic collapse. Prior to becoming a Salon lifer he freelanced for a wide variety of publications, from Newsweek to Rolling Stone to Wired, and wrote a book, “Bots: The Origin of New Species”. He lives in Berkeley, Calif., with his two children and he likes to ride his bicycle up hill.

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In this photo illustration, Chat GPT logo seen displayed on a smartphone with Artifical Intelligence (AI) symbols in the background. (Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

“Dr. Google” meets its match: Dr. ChatGPT

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The author's first word-processor. (Andrew Leonard)

How I switched sides in the technology wars

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OkCupid founder: “I wish people exercised more humanity” on OkCupid

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A killer app for the Apple Watch: Gun control

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Tim Cook introduces the new Apple Watch, Sept. 9, 2014, in Cupertino, Calif. (AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

The scary Apple Watch future

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How Apple built the greatest hype machine in the history of the world

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Kate Upton, Jennifer Lawrence (AP/Eric Charbonneau/Arthur Mola)

Reddit hits peak irony

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Vikram Chandra (Faber and Faber)

Adventures in geek mythology: The mystic’s guide to computing

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How Twitter can avoid the Facebook trap

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The author with his daughter as a young girl

My daughter’s Ebola scare: Why we’re not ready to panic (yet)

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Apple cultists, as imagined in a Samsung ad

iPhone fandom is now a marketing ploy

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Reddit’s pathetic nude celebrity selfie rage

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Pop culture’s newest apocalypse: Visions of a smartphone dystopia

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Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Wolf of Wall Street," Michael Douglas in "Wall Street"

Why Uber must be stopped

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Your data is for sale — and not just on Facebook

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Why Mark Zuckerberg’s war on click bait proves we are all pawns of social media

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A new explanation for tech’s pathetic gender diversity: The personal computer

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Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redrord, Jason Robards, Jack Warden and Martin Balsam in "All the President's Men" (Warner Bros.)

Sorry, everyone: The future of journalism is still up in the air

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Why Burning Man is not an example of a loosely regulated tech utopia

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Barack Obama, Grover Norquist, Hillary Clinton, John Boehner (Reuters/AP/Larry Downing/Jonathan Ernst/Carolyn Kaster/Jim Bourg/Salon)

How Uber will conquer America

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Our weird robot apocalypse: How paper clips could bring about the end of the world

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Rand Paul (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/Salon)

The GOP’s dangerous new BFF: What the Republican love affair with Uber is really about

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Rise of the phone zombies: What we lose when technology gives us everything

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Wikipedia at war! “Monkey selfie” sets off bizarre copyright dispute

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