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Why Everyone’s Wrong to Bet Against San Francisco: A Conversation With BuzzFeed News Exec. Editor Mat Honan

‘Maybe we’re having a bust right now, but it’ll boom again’

Alex Kantrowitz
OneZero
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17 min readMar 24, 2021

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Mat Honan

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BuzzFeed News Executive Editor Mat Honan has long covered the way society interacts with technology. He joins Big Technology Podcast this week to discuss the “Zoom Class,” the rise of NFTs, and how San Francisco may change after the pandemic.

Alex Kantrowitz: Hi Mat, Let’s talk about the “Zoom Class,” or the group of people who’ve been able to keep their jobs and work from home during the pandemic. Some have even moved to “Zoom towns” a few hours away from the cities they once lived in. What do you think the implications are of having a group of people who can do that, and a group who can’t?

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Alex Kantrowitz
OneZero

Veteran journalist covering Big Tech and society. Subscribe to my newsletter here: https://bigtechnology.com.