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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.

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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(apple.com/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-287881p1.html'>Aaron Amat</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

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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(AP/Mark Lennihan)

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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(Reuters/Dado Ruvic)

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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(AP/Paul A. Hebert)

Reddit’s pathetic nude celebrity selfie rage

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-830689p1.html'>isoga</a>, <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-64260p1.html'>Syda Productions</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

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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(Reuters/Dado Ruvic)

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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(Reuters/Jim Urquhart)

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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A photo of a different macaque monkey, taken by a human. (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-295900p1.html'>Dudarev Mikhail</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

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

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