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Nat Watkins
Ideas Contributor
Nat Watkins is a designer and freelance journalist covering tech, society, and digital futures. She’s surprisingly optimistic about the whole thing.
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Inside Big Tech’s Race to Patent Everything
Mar 15, 2022 8:00 AM