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It’s time to retire the term “user”

Though “user” seems to describe a relationship that is deeply transactional, many of the technological relationships in which a person would be considered a user are actually quite personal. That being the case, is the term “user” still relevant?  This story was written by Taylor Majewski and narrated by Noa.

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  The great commercial takeover of low Earth orbit

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  The world’s on the verge of a carbon storage boom

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  The entrepreneur dreaming of a factory of unlimited organs

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  Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong?

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  How a tiny Pacific Island became the global capital of cybercrime