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The Revival of American Industry—and Why I’m Rebooting The Burner Files
The ways we use tech, the ways we build industry, are transforming. I'll document how business and society are undergoing a drastic and unprecedented…
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The age of the open internet is finished. How do we contend with a closed one?
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The Burner Files
The Burner Files
Tracking the reinventions underway in American business, tech, and industry, from Geoffrey Cain, author of Samsung Rising, The Perfect Police State, and other forthcoming books.
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