Nick Bilton

Vanity Fair

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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.

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It's been 500 years since Thomas More published his great work of social and urban philosophy, Utopia.

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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.

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