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The Storytellers | Cory Doctorow Reads from The Bezzle
We are so pleased to present another iteration of The Storytellers, a series of author readings by Locus Awards finalists. Previously we heard Naomi Kritzer reading “The Little Free Library”. Today...
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CORY DOCTOROW (pluralistic.net) is the author of The Lost Cause, The Internet Con, Red Team Blues, Little Brother and many other books. He was made an honourary Doctor of Laws by York University and...
View ArticleCommentary: Cory Doctorow: Reverse Centaurs
Science fiction’s superpower isn’t thinking up new technologies – it’s thinking up new social arrangements for technology. What the gadget does is nowhere near as important as who the gadget does it...
View ArticleCommentary: Cory Doctorow: Rubber-Hose Cryptanalysis
If there’s one thing I can’t abide, it’s nontechnical technothrillers. You know the trope: “We’ve got eight minutes to crack this mainframe, but it’s protected with encryption that is rated for ten...
View ArticleCommentary: Cory Doctorow: Strange Bedfellows and Long Knives
If a group of people have been trying to get something done for some time without success, there are two possibilities: Either they’re failing because of bad tactics, or they’re failing because they...
View ArticleCommentary: Cory Doctorow: There Were Always Enshittifiers
In my new novel Picks and Shovels, we learn the origins of Martin Hench, my bestselling, two-fisted, scambusting forensic accountant who debuted in 2023’s Red Team Blues and whose adventures continued...
View ArticleCory Doctorow: Hard (Sovereignty) Cases Make Bad (Internet) Law
Let’s start with two obvious facts: The internet is a communications medium, that crosses international borders. That means that every single policy question related to the internet will have: a) A...
View ArticleCory Doctorow: Marshmallow Longtermism
There are many ways to cleave the views of the political right from the political left, but none is so science fictional as the right’s confidence in the role of individual self-discipline on one’s...
View ArticleCory Doctorow: Reckoning
CORY EFRAM DOCTOROW was born July 17, 1971 in Toronto, Canada. He attended alternative schools and worked at SF specialty store Bakka Books, but dropped out of high school at 17 and briefly moved to...
View ArticleCory Doctorow: No One Is the Enshittifier of Their Own Story
No one was more surprised than I was when the American Dialect Society named ‘‘enshittification’’ – my dirty little coinage to describe how everything on the internet is (suddenly, simultaneously)...
View ArticleCory Doctorow: Capitalists Hate Capitalism
In conflict, we find clarity. We all hold contradictory views: We love our families, but they drive us crazy. We want more housing in our cities, but we don’t want our property values to decrease with...
View ArticleCory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI?
Of course AI is a bubble. It has all the hallmarks of a classic tech bubble. Pick up a rental car at SFO and drive in either direction on the 101 – north to San Francisco, south to Palo Alto – and...
View ArticleCommentary by Cory Doctorow: Don’t Be Evil
It’s tempting to think of the Great Enshittening – in which all the internet services we enjoyed and came to rely upon became suddenly and irreversibly terrible – as the result of moral decay. That...
View ArticleCommentary by Cory Doctorow: Plausible Sentence Generators
I was surprised as anyone when I found myself accidentally using a large language model (that is, an “AI” chatbot) to write some prose for me. I was twice as surprised when I found myself impressed by...
View ArticleCommentary by Cory Doctorow: SF Doesn‘t Predict, It Contests
On June 20, 2023, I will be awarded an Honourary Doctor of Laws from York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, in Toronto, Canada. The text below is the speech I will give....
View ArticleCommentary: Cory Doctorow: The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have a Point
One of the more baffling events of the first quarter of 2023 was the mass protest in Oxford (England, not Mississippi) against the “15-minute city pledge,” a movement to get city councils to strive for...
View ArticleCommentary: Cory Doctorow: End to End
Within the very first year of operation, 1878, Bell’s company learned a sharp lesson about combining teenage boys and telephone switchboards. Putting teenage boys in charge of the phone system brought...
View ArticleCommentary: Cory Doctorow: Social Quitting
As I type these words, a mass exodus is underway from Twitter and Facebook. After decades of eye-popping growth, these social media sites are contracting at an alarming rate. In some ways, this...
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View ArticleCory Doctorow: Moneylike
“Five thousand quatloos that the newcomers will have to be destroyed.” Quatloos. Credits. Euros. Dollars. Dogecoin. Wait, Dogecoin? At some point in your life, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What is...
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