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9Natree Germany
[Rezensiert] Enshittification (Cory Doctorow) Zusammengefasst.
Enshittification (Cory Doctorow) - Amazon Germany Store: https://www.amazon.de/dp/1836742223?tag=9natreegerman-21 - Amazon Worldwide Store: https://global.buys.trade/Enshittification-Cory-Doctorow.html - eBay: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Enshittification+Cory+Doctorow+&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5339060787&customid=9natree&toolid=10001&mkevt=1 - Weiterlesen: https://germanz.top/read/1836742223/ #Plattformökonomie #Netzwerkeffekte #Interoperabilität #Wettbewerbsrecht #Überwachungskapitalismus #Enshittification Dies sind die Erkenntnisse aus diesem Buch. Erstens, Das Enshittification Muster: Wie Plattformen systematisch schlechter werden, Im Zentrum steht die These, dass die Verschlechterung vieler Onl...
2025-12-21
10 min
AI for Career Success
Review of Daniel Miessler's Essay "Thoughts on Doctorow's Reverse Centaurs AI Talk"
Welcome to episode 136 of the AI for Career Success podcast from Curt Robbins. This educational content is designed to give working professionals who leverage AI as a tool for efficiency and productivity a competitive edge.In this episode, hosts Daphne and Fred unpack a December 7 article from AI guru Daniel Miessler entitled "Thoughts on Doctorow's 'Reverse Centaurs' AI Talk," with the subtitle "Another example of a great thinker sounding great while missing the point entirely." This episode reviews the critical analysis by Daniel Miessler concerning a verbose December 5 essay on artificial intelligence (AI) by Cory...
2025-12-08
08 min
Trust Revolution
S02E13 Cory Doctorow – Why Every Platform Betrays You
“The smallest government you can have is determined by the largest corporation you're willing to tolerate.” Cory Doctorow didn't just coin “enshittification”—he mapped the precise mechanics of how every platform you depend on will eventually turn against you, and why voting with your wallet won't save you. Episode Summary Cory Doctorow breaks down the three-stage process by which platforms lure users in, lock them down, and extract maximum value until the whole thing collapses. Using Facebook as the prototype, he traces how lock-in happens automatically through what economists call the collective action problem—your friends hold...
2025-11-26
1h 14
The Intersect with Cory Corrine
The age of ensh*ttification with Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow, author, journalist, and activist, believes that the internet — once a space of promise and connection — has been systematically degraded by corporate greed. In his new book “Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It,” he details how the platforms we depend on have become more expensive and more exploitative.In our conversation, Cory Doctorow shares how this process unfolds, first platforms serve users, then they exploit businesses to make money, and finally they squeeze both to please shareholders. Together, we explore how this pattern has reshaped everything from social media and streamin...
2025-11-06
24 min
WTFinance
The End of American Imperialism? with Gilbert Doctorow
Interview recorded - 29th of September, 2025On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming back Gilbert Doctorow. Gilbert is a author and geopolitical analyst with decades of experience.During our conversation we spoke about the geopolitical sphere, war parties shifting, trump impact, Ukraine vs Russia conflict, US pivoting to China, return of the Monroe doctrine and more. I hope you enjoy!0:00 - Introduction1:17 - Geopolitical sphere3:51 - War parties shifting?9:48 - Trump impact14:43 - Common enemy16:19 - Ukraine - Russia conflict27:13 - Peace deal?31:24 - US pivoting to China?36:07 - Return to Monroe doctrine37:11...
2025-10-01
42 min
Armenian News Network - Groong: Week In Review Podcast
Gilbert Doctorow - Multipolar Shifts at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit | Ep 469, Sep 6, 2025
Multipolar Shifts at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) SummitTopicsSCO Summit in Tianjin, ChinaChina-India ThawPower of Siberia Gas PipelineWhat’s in it for Armenia?GuestGilbert DoctorowHostsHovik ManucharyanAsbed BedrossianEpisode 469 | Recorded: September 4, 2025Subscribe and follow us everywhere you are: linktr.ee/groong
2025-09-06
52 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Nimby and the D-Hoppers CONCLUSION
This week on my podcast, I conclude my reading of my 2003 Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine story, Nimby and the D-Hoppers” (here’s the first half). The story has been widely reprinted (it was first published online in The Infinite Matrix in 2008), and was translated (by Elisabeth Vonarburg) into French for Solaris Magazine, as well as into Chinese, Russian, Hebrew, and Italian. The story was adapted for my IDW comic book series Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by Ben Templesmith. I read this into my podcast 20 years ago, but I found myself wanting...
2025-04-14
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Nimby and the D-Hoppers
This week on my podcast, I once again read my 2003 Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine story, Nimby and the D-Hoppers” The story has been widely reprinted (it was first published online in The Infinite Matrix in 2008), and was translated (by Elisabeth Vonarburg) into French for Solaris Magazine, as well as into Chinese, Russian, Hebrew, and Italian. The story was adapted for my IDW comic book series Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by Ben Templesmith. I read this into my podcast 20 years ago, but I found myself wanting to revisit it. Don’t...
2025-04-06
00 min
Metaviews to the Future
26: Cory Doctorow on the "Sucks To Be You" Society
Jesse Hirsh engages in a profound dialogue with Cory Doctorow, exploring the current socio-political landscape shaped by technology and governance. As they navigate the implications of AI nationalism and authoritarianism, Doctorow offers insights into how these trends echo historical patterns of control and resistance. The conversation delves into the mechanics of social media and the importance of interoperability among platforms like Blue Sky and Mastodon, emphasizing that the future of online communication hinges on user agency and freedom from corporate entrapment. Doctorow articulates a vision for a more decentralized digital ecosystem, where users can migrate seamlessly between platforms without...
2025-01-20
46 min
Grey Matter with Michael Krasny
Cory Doctorow - The Intersection of Storytelling and Technology
Michael Krasny interviewed best-selling author Cory Doctorow (with over 150 million book sales globally), initially exploring his personal and national backgrounds. They discussed why Doctorow sees himself as more closely tied to science fiction as a genre, despite the range of his writings. They delved into how he became so knowledgeable about technology and why he dropped out of four different colleges. The interview also touched on his surname and the likely lack of blood kinship to acclaimed American author E.L. Doctorow. They explored the source of his prolific drive and the challenges he faces managing physical pain. Krasny asked...
2024-12-11
1h 05
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Precaratize Bosses
Today for my podcast, I read Precaratize Bosses, a recent essay from my Pluralistic.net newsletter. I recorded this on a day when I was home between book-tour stops (I’m out with my new techno crime-thriller, The Bezzle). Catch me this Thursday (May 2) in Winnipeg with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, then in Calgary with Wordfest on May 3, then in Vancouver at Massy Arts om May 4, then in Tartu, Estonia for a series of events with the Prima Vista Literary Festival (May 6-11), and beyond! The canonical link for the schedule is here....
2024-04-28
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Capitalists Hate Capitalism
Today for my podcast, I read Capitalists Hate Capitalism, my latest column from Locus Magazine. It’s a meditation on the difference between feudalism and capitalism, and how to know which one you’re living under. I recorded this on a day when I was home between book-tour stops (I’m out with my new techno crime-thriller, The Bezzle). Catch me this Wednesday (Apr 17) in Chicago at Anderson’s Books, then in Torino for the Biennale keynote on Apr 21, then in Marin County at Book Passage Corte Madera on Apr 27, then in Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver, and beyo...
2024-04-15
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Subprime gadgets
Today for my podcast, I read Subprime gadgets, originally published in my Pluralistic blog: I recorded this on a day when I was home between book-tour stops (I’m out with my new techno crime-thriller, The Bezzle). Catch me on April 11 in Boston with Randall Munroe, on April 12th in Providence, Rhode Island, then onto Chicago, Torino, Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver and beyond! The canonical link for the schedule is here. The promise of feudal security: “Surrender control over your digital life so that we, the wise, giant corporation, can ensure that you...
2024-04-01
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
The Majority of Censorship is Self-Censorship
Today for my podcast, I read The majority of censorship is self-censorship, originally published in my Pluralistic blog. It’s a breakdown of Ada Palmer’s excellent Reactor essay about the modern and historical context of censorship. I recorded this on a day when I was home between book-tour stops (I’m out with my new techno crime-thriller, The Bezzle. Catch me tomorrow (Monday) in Seattle with Neal Stephenson at Third Place Books. Then it’s Powell’s in Portland, and then Tuscon. The canonical link for the schedule is here. States –...
2024-02-25
00 min
The Science in The Fiction
Cory Doctorow's 'Red Team Blues' - Chapter 1 of Audiobook
Cory Doctorow has given us permission to play the first chapter of Red Team Blues directly on our podcast! And as an added treat, the audio-book is read by none other than Will Wheaton, the actor who played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek The Next Generation - a voice that you will instantly recognize. It's pretty rare to hear excerpts from an author’s work directly on a podcast that discusses their work. Authors usually do not have the power to give such permission because they generally have to sign away control over the rights to their own creative outpu...
2023-11-16
55 min
The Diner Podcast
Bonus Episode: Cory Doctorow on Chokepoint Capitalism at Elevate Festival 2023 [EN]
Defeat chokepoint capitalism to get artists paid. Talk by Cory Doctorow at Elevate Festival 2023 on Chokepoint Capitalism, the book he co-wrote with Rebecca Giblin. Links chokepointcapitalism.com – Defeat chokepoint capitalism to get artists paidGet the DRM-free e-book and audiobook via Cory’s website Thanks a lot to Cory Doctorow and the wonderful team of Elevate Festival 2023!
2023-10-06
1h 08
The Diner Podcast
Cory Doctorow on Chokepoint Capitalism [EN]
The profit of big tech should rightfully go to others. Five giant publishers, four giant studios, three giant record labels, two companies that do all the ad tech and ads and one company that does all the ebooks and audiobooks mean one thing: we have a problem. Cory Doctorow about how the big tech business models work, how they deprive creatives from getting payed fairly and what we can do about it. Links Cory DoctorowChokepoint CapitalismFobazi Ettarh: Vocational Awe (YT link; to watch it without Google analyzing you, use invidio.us...
2023-10-06
46 min
The Jim Rutt Show
EP 198 Cory Doctorow on Seizing the Means of Computation
Jim talks with Cory Doctorow about the ideas in his new book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation. They discuss Cory's long affiliation with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, destroying Big Tech instead of "fixing" it, why tech lords are not evil geniuses, how Big Tech consolidated, antitrust law, the felony contempt of business model, interoperability, the high-speed shell game of digital, the kill zone, the case of Diapers.com, the falling fortunes of tech workers, defining IP, Grokster, "polite competition," automated notice and takedown, Jim's proposal for content moderation, the flexibility of fair use, Interoperable Facebook, prior...
2023-09-20
53 min
dongdongcuk
[epub] [DOWNLOAD] Doctorow: Collected Stories by E.L. Doctorow
[epub] [DOWNLOAD] Doctorow: Collected Stories by E.L. Doctorow Read Online Doctorow: Collected Stories by E.L. Doctorow is a great book to read and that's why I recommend reading or downloading ebook Doctorow: Collected Stories for free in any format with visit the link button below. **Read Book Here ==> https://karunggonisan.blogspot.com/30744704-doctorow **Download Book Here ==> https://karunggonisan.blogspot.com/30744704-doctorow Book Synopsis : A superb collection of fifteen great stories by an American master, E. L. Doctorowâ€â€the author of Ragtime, The March, The Book of Daniel, and Billy Bathgate In â€Å...
2023-09-01
00 min
The MMT Podcast with Patricia Pino & Christian Reilly
Cory Doctorow: Shakedowns, Shell Games & Other Silicon Valley Shenanigans
Patricia & Christian talk to acclaimed author and activist Cory Doctorow, about his new crypto heist thriller "Red Team Blues", and the real-world money mechanics and shady shenanigans that inform the story. Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast Order "Red Team Blues" here: https://craphound.com/shop/ LIVE EVENT! Christian will be interviewing Cory Doctorow in Nottingham (UK!) on Tuesday 30th May 2023, tickets here: https://www.waterstones.com/events/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow...
2023-05-17
1h 02
Copyright Waffle
Copyright Waffle Episode 21 Cory Doctorow
Jane and Chris (copyrightliteracy.org) speak to science fiction author, journalist, digital rights activist and copyright legend Cory Doctorow. We hear about his introduction to the copyright debates, his conversion to openness, the problems with the modern copyright regime and his latest book 'Chokepoint Capitalism' written with Rebecca Giblin. We also get his response to a song commemorating our conversation which appears to be by Kraftwerk. Here are links to the things Cory mentions in the podcast: Cory on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow Cory's blog https://pluralistic.net/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/ Cult...
2022-11-09
1h 17
Triangulation (Audio)
Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin: Chokepoint Capitalism - How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
Writer/activist Cory Doctorow and scholar Rebecca Giblin join Leo Laporte to talk about their latest book Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back. They argue that we're in a new era of "chokepoint capitalism," with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value that should rightfully go to others. Get "Chokepoint Capitalism": https://chokepointcapitalism.com Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv...
2022-09-30
1h 04
Triangulation (Video)
Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin: Chokepoint Capitalism - How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
Writer/activist Cory Doctorow and scholar Rebecca Giblin join Leo Laporte to talk about their latest book Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back. They argue that we're in a new era of "chokepoint capitalism," with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value that should rightfully go to others. Get "Chokepoint Capitalism": https://chokepointcapitalism.com Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv...
2022-09-30
1h 04
TWiT Events (Audio)
Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin: Chokepoint Capitalism - How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
Writer/activist Cory Doctorow and scholar Rebecca Giblin join Leo Laporte to talk about their latest book Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back. They argue that we're in a new era of "chokepoint capitalism," with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value that should rightfully go to others. Get "Chokepoint Capitalism": https://chokepointcapitalism.com Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv...
2022-09-30
1h 04
TWiT Events (Video)
Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin: Chokepoint Capitalism - How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
Writer/activist Cory Doctorow and scholar Rebecca Giblin join Leo Laporte to talk about their latest book Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back. They argue that we're in a new era of "chokepoint capitalism," with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value that should rightfully go to others. Get "Chokepoint Capitalism": https://chokepointcapitalism.com Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv...
2022-09-30
1h 04
Current Affairs
Cory Doctorow on The Wondrous World of the Early Internet & How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism
Pioneering blogger and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow has been an activist for online freedom since the early days of the history of the internet. He has long been one of the major voices opposing restrictive copyright and corporate domination, and a visionary defending a pluralistic online world where eccentricity and individuality are allowed to flourish. In books like Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future (which, like all of his books, is available in full for free), Doctorow has shown what an internet created by the people, unconstrained by intellectual property law...
2022-07-31
44 min
The Boldly Now Show
GFI05: Cory Doctorow, The Remixed Future
Today, most of our content online is derivative of someone else’s work. It’s a remix and rework of anything and everything. It’s all reflective. It’s all copyrighted. Not that the copyrights are being enforced, but it’s still mindboggling how out of date our copyright system is. Cory Doctorow is one of the earliest adopters of the Creative Commons License for his works. He and his science fiction novels play with this emerging era of creative cynicism. Today, Cory gives us a deep insight into this issue and how the ownership of works and ideas is bound t...
2022-03-19
1h 11
The War on Cars
The End of Uber with Cory Doctorow
Remember when Uber, the mobile phone taxi-hailing app, was going to revolutionize transportation, transform cities, and lead us to our glorious robot-car future? That wasn't so long ago. So, what happened? Where did it all go? Cory Doctorow has some ideas. A prolific non-fiction author, sci-fi novelist, and technology activist Doctorow has been a keen observer and critic of Uber for years now. "Uber," Doctorow writes, "is a bezzle. Every bezzle ends. And Uber's time is up." Plus: Reality has a well known anti-car bias. ***This episode is sponsored by Cleverhood.*** Support The War on Car...
2022-01-26
31 min
The Drug Science Podcast
53. Moral Panic with Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British citizen of Eastern European Jewish descent and, frankly, it is no less difficult to grasp his vast interests and points of expertise than his family roots. After attending four universities without obtaining a degree, Cory’s career started with co-founding free software P2P company called OpenCola and selling it to the Open Text Corporation after four years. Later Doctorow relocated to London and worked as European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation helping to establish the Open Rights Group, before leaving the EFF to pursue both fiction and non-fiction writing full-time.
2021-12-22
53 min
Walled Culture
Cory Doctorow - Part 2: New publishing models for creators, Amazon as a frenemy, and the Internet Archive court case
Author, journalist, and activist Cory Doctorow talks about the new publishing models available to creators, the consolidation of the publishing and distribution markets, the emergence of Amazon as a frenemy to publishers and the misunderstandings that led to the Internet Archive court case. Highlights with timestamps: 1:26 Cory talks about the new publishing models for books, the Creative Commons license, and how other people can also make money even after putting their content online for free 15:20 Cory also explains the reasons why his publishers asked him to stop using the Creative Commons licenses 18:34 Cory talks ab...
2021-09-23
35 min
Walled Culture
Cory Doctorow – Part 1: Newspapers, Big Tech, Link Tax, DRM and Right to repair
Author, journalist, and activist Cory Doctorow talks about the evolution of newspapers, the role and threats posed by big tech, the collateral damage created by link taxes and the impact of digital rights management systems (DRM) on our daily lives, including on our right to repair Highlights with timestamps: 0:00 Intro 4:05 Cory talks about the link tax, Craigslist, monopolies and how this is impacting the press especially newspapers and also how the internet impacted the press and what needs to be done 17:22 Cory explains why he feels that link taxes affect the smaller startups platforms m...
2021-09-21
35 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 31 – CONCLUSION)
Here’s part thirty-one, the conclusion of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Here’s how my publisher described it when it ca...
2021-02-08
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 30)
Here’s part thirty of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2021-02-01
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 29)
Here’s part twenty-nine of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2021-01-25
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 28)
Here’s part twenty-eight of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2021-01-18
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 27)
Here’s part twenty-seven of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2021-01-11
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 26)
Here’s part twenty-six of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-12-14
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 25)
Here’s part twenty-five of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-12-07
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 24)
Here’s part twenty-four of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-11-23
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
The Attack Surface Lectures: Cyberpunk and Post Cyberpunk
The Attack Surface Lectures were a series of eight panel discussions on the themes in Cory Doctorow’s novel Attack Surface, each hosted by a different bookstore and each accompanied by a different pair of guest speakers. This program is “Cyberpunk and Post-Cyberpunk,” hosted by Anderson’s Books in Naperville, IL, with guest-hosts Bruce Sterling and Christopher Brown. It was recorded on October 19, 2020. Here is the original Youtube link for this program. Please consider subscribing to Anderson’s Youtube channel for access to all their outstanding author events! MP3
2020-11-19
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 23)
Here’s part twenty-three of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-11-16
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 22)
Here’s part twenty-two of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-11-09
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 21)
Here’s part twenty-one of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Please, vote if you can. Here’s how my pub...
2020-11-02
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 20)
Here’s part twenty of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-10-26
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 19)
Here’s part nineteen of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Some show notes: Here’s the form for g...
2020-10-19
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 18)
Here’s part eighteen of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). Content warning for domestic abuse and sexual violence. This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Some s...
2020-10-12
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 17)
Here’s part seventeen of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Some show notes: Here’s the form for gettin...
2020-10-05
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Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Attack Surface on the MMT Podcast
I was incredibly happy to appear on the MMT Podcast again this week, talking about economics, science fiction, interoperability, tech workers and tech ethics, and my new novel ATTACK SURFACE, which comes out in the UK tomorrow (Oct 13 US/Canada): https://pileusmmt.libsyn.com/68-cory-doctorow-digital-rights-surveillance-capitalism-interoperable-socks We also delved into my new nonfiction book, HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, and how it looks at the problem of misinformation, and how that same point of view is weaponized by Masha, the protagonist and antihero of Attack Surface. https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744...
2020-10-01
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Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 16)
Here’s part sixteen of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-09-28
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 15)
Here’s part fifteen of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-09-21
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 14)
Here’s part fourteen of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-08-24
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 13)
Here’s part thirteen of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-08-17
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 12)
Here’s part twelve of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-08-03
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 11)
Here’s part eleven of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-07-27
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 10)
Here’s part ten of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-07-21
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 09)
Here’s part nine of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-07-06
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 08)
Here’s part eight of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-06-29
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 07)
Here’s part seven of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-06-22
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 06)
Here’s part six of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-06-15
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 05)
Here’s part five of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). There’s more of Kurt in this week’s episode; as I mentioned in last week’s intro, Kurt is loosely based on my old friend Darren Atkinson, who pulled down a six-figure income by recovering, repairing and reselling high-tech waste from Toronto’s industrial suburbs. Darren was the subject of the first feature I ever sold to Wired, Dumpster Diving. But Kurt...
2020-06-08
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 04)
Here’s part four of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). In this installment, we meet Kurt, the crustypunk high-tech dumpster-diver. Kurt is loosely based on my old friend Darren Atkinson, who pulled down a six-figure income by recovering, repairing and reselling high-tech waste from Toronto’s industrial suburbs. Darren was the subject of the first feature I ever sold to Wired, Dumpster Diving, which was published in the September, 1997 issue. This...
2020-05-25
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 03)
Here’s part three of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-05-18
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 02)
Here’s part two of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). In this installment, we meet Kurt, the crustypunk high-tech dumpster-diver. Kurt is loosely based on my old friend Darren Atkinson, who pulled down a six-figure income by recovering, repairing and reselling high-tech waste from Toronto’s industrial suburbs. Darren was the subject of the first feature I ever sold to Wired, Dumpster Diving, which was published in the September, 1997 issue. This...
2020-05-04
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Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 01)
Here’s part one (MP3) of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, which debuted last weekend on the Podapalooza festival. It’s easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out: Alan is a middle-age...
2020-04-27
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Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Radio Free Burrito Presents Return To Pleasure Island By Cory Doctorow (fixed)
Wil Wheaton and I swapped podcasts! I read his 2008 journal entries about Little Brother and parenting, and he released a fantastic audiobook (MP3) of my story Return to Pleasure Island from my first short story collection, A Place So Foreign and Eight More.
2020-04-15
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Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
My appearance on Cool Tools
This week, I appear on the Cool Tools podcast to discuss my favorite, most indispensible gadgets and services and why I love them. https://kk.org/cooltools/cory-doctorow-science-fiction-author/ My top picks were my Crkt Snap-Lock knife – a one-handed-opening, lightweight, super versatile pocket knife that I carry everywhere. https://www.crkt.com/snap-lock.html I also chose my Chinese OEM underwater MP3 player. I swim every day for my chronic pain maintenance and this is how I make it bearable, getting through 1-2 audiobooks/month. https://ww...
2020-03-20
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Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Talking about Disney’s 1964 Carousel of Progress with Bleeding Cool: our lost animatronic future
Back in 2007, I wrote a science fiction novella called “The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrrow,” about an immortal, transhuman survivor of an apocalypse whose father is obsessed with preserving artifacts from the fallen civilization, especially the Carousel of Progress, an exhibition that GE commissioned from Disney for the 1964 World’s Fair in New York, which is still operating in Walt Disney World. The novella was collected into my 2011 Outspoken Authors book from PM Press. Bleeding Cool News’s Jason Henderson is a fellow Carousel of Progress obsessive, and he asked me if I’d come on...
2019-11-25
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Singularity.FM
Cory Doctorow on Walkaway: This will all be so great if we don’t screw it up
Cory Doctorow is probably my all time most favorite science fiction writer. The reason for that is simple – Doctorow is not only a great story-teller but also an activist. To paraphrase Karl Marx, writers have tried to capture and describe the world but the point, however, is to change it. And Cory is a fantastic example of an author who doesn’t spend his life in solitude or writing retreats. No. Doctorow jumps right in the trenches and is not afraid to get his hands dirty in doing what is necessary and what is right. Needless to say, I was elat...
2019-08-16
1h 32
Geopolitics & Empire
Cory Doctorow: Big Tech, EU Copyright Directive, & the Chinafication of the Internet
Geopolitics & Empire · Cory Doctorow: Big Tech, EU Copyright Directive, & the Chinafication of the Internet #113 Cory Doctorow discusses the oligarchic or monopoly power amassed by Big Tech (e.g. Facebook, Google, Amazon), their business model of surveillance capitalism, the need for anti-trust reform, the futility of using alternative systems, the EU Copyright Directive, and the Chinafication of the internet. He also discusses his fascinating science fiction work. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: Patreon https://www.patreon.com/empiregeopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate W...
2019-05-28
00 min
Triangulation (Video)
Cory Doctorow: Radicalized
Cory Doctorow's latest book is Radicalized. Megan Morrone talks to him about DRM toast, online radicalization and science fiction vs. futurism. Buy Radicalized: https://amzn.to/2VdUejR Host: Megan Morrone Guest: Cory Doctorow Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation.
2019-05-03
1h 01
Triangulation (Audio)
Cory Doctorow: Radicalized
Cory Doctorow's latest book is Radicalized. Megan Morrone talks to him about DRM toast, online radicalization and science fiction vs. futurism. Buy Radicalized: https://amzn.to/2VdUejR Host: Megan Morrone Guest: Cory Doctorow Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation.
2019-05-03
1h 01
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Talking Radicalized on CBC’s Day 6, with Tim Maughan, author of Infinite Detail
This morning, CBC’s flagship weekend programme Day Six aired its latest episode (MP3), a conversation between host Brent Bambury, me, and Tim Maughan, the author of an outstanding debut novel called Infinite Detail. (Image: Jason Vermes/CBC)) It’s often said that sci-fi’s role is to project the future, but Doctorow is skeptical of that perspective. “What we’re doing is kidding ourselves that we’re projecting a future; I think that at best, we’re reflecting the present,” he told Bambury. “As an activist, I have t...
2019-03-23
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
A Hopeful Look At The Apocalypse: An interview with PRI’s Innovation Hub
I chatted with Innovation Hub, distributed by PRI, about the role of science fiction and dystopia in helping to shape the future (MP3). Three Takeaways 1. Doctorow thinks that science-fiction can give people “ideas for what to do if the future turns out in different ways.” Like how William Gibson’s Neuromancer didn’t just predict the internet, it predicted the intermingling of corporations and the state. 2. When you have story after story about how people turn on each other after disaster, Doctorow believes it gives us the larg...
2018-01-05
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Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Talking Walkaway on the Barnes and Noble podcast
I recorded this interview last summer at San Diego Comic-Con; glad to hear it finally live! Authors are, without exception, readers, and behind every book there is…another book, and another. In this episode of the podcast, we’re joined by two writers for conversations about the vital books and ideas that influence inform their own work. First, Cory Doctorow talks with B&N’s Josh Perilo about his recent novel of an imagined near future, Walkaway, and the difference between a dystopia and a disaster. Then we hear from Will Schwalbe, talking with M...
2017-12-16
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Talking Walkaway on the CNet book-club podcast
CNet has started a new book-club podcast, and they honored me by picking my novel Walkaway as their second-ever title. We had a long and far-ranging discussion last week about the book and the themes it raises: disasters, economics, technological immortality, community, trolling, bohemianism, and much more (MP3). Since a big part of “Walkaway” concerns ideas of artificial intelligence and the line between humans and machines (which becomes more blurred as the book progresses), Scott and I circle back later to talk about Blade Runner, its new sequ...
2017-10-19
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
A Hopeful Look At The Apocalypse: interview with Innovation Hub
I’m on the latest episode of Innovation Hub (MP3): Science-fiction is a genre that imagines the future. It doesn’t necessarily predict the future (after all, where are flying cars?), but it grapples with the technological and societal changes happening today to better understand our world and where it’s heading. So, what does it mean when so much of our most popular science-fiction – The Handmaid’s Tale, The Walking Dead, and The Hunger Games – present bleak, depressing futures? Cory Doctorow might just have an answer. He’s a blogger, writer, activist, and author of the new boo...
2017-07-29
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Talking about contestable futures on the Imaginary Worlds podcast
I’m in the latest episode of Imaginary Worlds, “Imagining the Internet” (MP3), talking about the future as a contestable place that we can’t predict, but that we can influence. We were promised flying cars and we got Twitter instead. That’s the common complaint against sci-fi authors. But some writers did imagine the telecommunications that changed our world for better or worse. Cory Doctorow, Ada Palmer, Jo Walton and Arizona State University professor Ed Finn look at the cyberpunks and their predecessors. And artist Paul St George talks about why he’s fascinated b...
2017-06-15
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
My guest-appearance on Hello From the Magic Tavern
I’m a huge fan of the fantastically rude improv/current affairs/high fantasy podcast Hello From the Magic Tavern, I’ve enjoyed it ever since I binge-listened to the first season halfway through. Last month, I dropped into the Cards Against Humanity studios where the podcast is recorded while in Chicago on my book tour, where I sat in on a session (MP3) where I played Sigint, the Five-Eyed Spider, a whistleblowing ex-spy for the Dark Lord. I had an amazing time: I’m no improver, but the Magic Tavern-dwellers were s...
2017-05-29
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Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Talking about Allan Sherman on the Comedy on Vinyl podcast
Jason Klamm stopped my office to interview me for his Comedy on Vinyl podcast, where I talked about the first comedy album I ever loved: Allan Sherman’s My Son, the Nut. I inherited my mom’s copy of the album when I was six years old, and listened to it over and over until I discovered — the hard way — that you can’t leave vinyl records on the dashboard of a car on a hot day. Our discussion ranged far and wide, over the golden age of novelty flexidiscs, Thomas Piketty, Hamilton...
2016-10-13
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
How free software stayed free
I did an interview with the Changelog podcast (MP3) about my upcoming talk at the O’Reilly Open Source conference in London, explaining how it is that the free and open web became so closed and unfree, but free and open software stayed so very free, and came to dominate the software landscape. “Desperate” is often the opposite of “open”: it’s when we’re in trouble that we’re most likely to compromise on our principles. How, then, did open become the default for so many tools and applications? Because when you...
2016-09-26
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Podcast: How we’ll kill all the DRM in the world, forever
I’m keynoting the O’Reilly Security Conference in New York in Oct/Nov, so I stopped by the O’Reilly Security Podcast (MP3) to explain EFF’s Apollo 1201 project, which aims to kill all the DRM in the world within a decade. A couple things changed in the last decade. The first is that the kinds of technologies that have access controls for copyrighted works have gone from these narrow slices (consoles and DVD players) to everything (the car in your driveway). If it has an operating system or a networking stack, i...
2016-08-17
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
My interview on Utah Public Radio’s “Access Utah”
Science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist Cory Doctorow joins us for Tuesday’s AU. In a recent column, Doctorow says that “all the data collected in giant databases today will breach someday, and when it does, it will ruin peoples’ lives. They will have their houses stolen from under them by identity thieves who forge their deeds (this is already happening); they will end up with criminal records because identity thieves will use their personal information to commit crimes (this is already happening); … they will have their devices compromised using passwords and personal data that leaked from old accounts...
2016-07-12
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Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
O’Reilly Hardware Podcast on the risks to the open Web and the future of the Internet of Things
I appeared on the O’Reilly Hardware Podcast this week (MP3, talking about the way that DRM has crept into all our smart devices, which compromises privacy, security and competition. In this episode of the Hardware podcast, we talk with writer and digital rights activist Cory Doctorow. He’s recently rejoined the Electronic Frontier Foundation to fight a World Wide Web Consortium proposal that would add DRM to the core specification for HTML. When we recorded this episode with Cory, the W3C had just overruled the EFF’s objection. The result...
2016-05-11
00 min
The Interrobang
What is the best way to destroy the internet before it destroys us? Cory Doctorow and Alan Brough
It has to be said: the cat pictures might not be enough. The internet definitively sucks sometimes. It’s a willing and fertile host to our most objectionable prejudice, anger and desire; an open marketplace for exploitation, child porn and illicit drugs and weapons. It provides a container for our greed, impatience and emotional evasiveness, and its liberating potential often feels like a false promise buried in a much larger mountain of disconnection, voyeurism and social media-fuelled narcissism. Even the feelgood and useful bits are compromised – our tracked behaviour is sold to advertisers, while security agencies like the...
2016-01-27
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Q&A from Clarion West benefit/reading in Seattle
Here’s the Q&A portion of the Cory Doctorow in Conversation event I did to benefit the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop in Seattle on July 28, 2015. The audio was provided Frank Catalano, who also conducted the interview. MP3
2015-07-30
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
LISTEN: Wil Wheaton reads “Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free”
I’ve posted the first chapter (MP3) of Wil Wheaton’s reading of my book Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free (which sports introductions by Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer!), which is available as a $15 DRM-free audiobook, sweetened by samples from Amanda Palmer and Dresden Dolls’ “Coin-Operated Boy.” {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/craphound.com\/info\/2014\/12\/19\/listen-wil-wheaton-reads-information-doesnt-want-to-be-free\/#arve-iframe-httpsarchiveorgembedidwtbf","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/idwtbf"} Buy Now In sharply argued, fast-moving chapters, Cory Doctorow’s Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative success in the d...
2014-12-19
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Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Interview with The Command Line podcast
I just appeared on the Command Line podcast (MP3) to talk about Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free — Thomas and I really had a wide-ranging and excellent conversation: In this episode, I interview Cory Doctorow about his latest book, “Information Doesn’t Want to be Free: Laws for the Internet Age.” If you are interested in learning more about the topics we discuss and that that book covers, you can also check out books by the scholars we mention: Lawrence Lessig, James Boyle and William Patry. I compared Cory’s book to “The Indie Band Survival Guide” the aut...
2014-12-14
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
PRI’s Studio 360 on Disney parks
The PRI Show Studio 360 has released a great episode in its “American Icons” series, this one dealing with the Disney themeparks. I was delighted to be interviewed for it, and they’ve included our complete, unedited interview with the piece. Generations of Americans have grown up with Walt Disney shaping our imaginations. In 1955, Disney mixed up some fairy tales, a few historical facts, and a dream of the future to create an alternate universe. Not just a place for fun, but a scale model of a perfect world. “Everything that you could imagine is there,”...
2013-10-17
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Teaching Computers Shows Us How Little We Understand About Ourselves
In this week’s podcast, I read aloud my latest Locus Magazine column, “Teaching Computers Shows Us How Little We Understand About Ourselves”: http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2013/07/cory-doctorow-teaching-computers-shows-us-how-little-we-understand-about-ourselves/ which concerns itself with the ways that we’re recklessly formalizing critical elements of human identity such as “names” and “families” for the convenience of corporations and their IT systems and business-models. “When a programmer instructs a computer to reject, or disregard, all input longer than 64 characters, she effectively makes it impossible for a bureaucrat – however sympathetic – to accommodate a name that’s longer than she’s imag...
2013-08-05
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Audio from my Homeland tour presentation
Thomas “Command Line” Gideon came out for the DC stop on my Homeland tour, at Busboys and Poets, and mic’ed me up for the event. He’s mastered the audio and posted it. It’s a 40 minute talk about the promise of technology to improve our lives, the risks from allowing technology to be used to surveil and control us, and the contributions Aaron Swartz made to this cause and to the book. There’s also about 20 minutes of Q&A. TCLP 2013-03-13 Cory Doctorow on the Themes of “Homeland” MP3 Subscribe...
2013-03-18
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Happy hols!
Today, on a very special Cory Doctorow podcast, the podcasting debut of Ms Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow! MP3 Link
2012-12-21
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Interview with Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy
I did an interview with The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy, which they’ve published in both text and MP3 form. We talked about Pirate Cinema, Rapture of the Nerds, the Humble Ebook Bundle, the future of publishing, the Disney/Star Wars merger, and lots more: Wired: Do you ever get letters from kids who have been inspired by your books to become hacker anarchists? Doctorow: Yeah, all the time — at least to become hackers, and political activists. My first young-adult novel Little Brother had an afterword with a...
2012-11-14
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Audio version of my essay collection Context
Jan Rubak has once again set out to create a fan-audiobook of my essays, reading aloud from my book Context as he did with my earlier collection, Content. He’s a great reader, and he’s uploaded half the book so far, with the rest promised soon. Here’s an MP3 of his reading of “Think Like a Dandelion.” “Context” by Cory Doctorow : Jan Rubak : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive (Thanks, Jan!)
2011-11-22
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Alice and me on Rum Doings podcast
My wife Alice and I did a two-for-one interview with the Rum Doings podcast, a gamey, geeky good time: “Amazingly we get onto the economy of Star Trek, via the consequences of teleporters. There is much discussion of the consequences of new technology on, well, everything. And then comes piracy, geocoding, and the surprise appearance of LittleBigPlanet developer, Luke Petre. Finally, we move on to talking about MakieLab’s project to develop 3D toys linked to online gaming.” Rum Doings Episode 76 Special: Cory Doctorow & Alice Taylor MP3 link
2011-07-01
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Copper Robot interview, pt 2
Here’s part 2 of the interview I conducted in Second Life with the Copper Robot show. In this part, I talk about the research that went into For the Win. “For anyone who’s my age and uses computers, you would have to undertake an extraordinary effort not to be a gamer,” he said. He started computer games at age 8, when a neighbor got Pong, and they became obsessed with the game. “We think you’ve got to be somebody who spends 70 hours a week playing World of Warcraft in order to call yourself a gamer,” Cory...
2010-06-10
00 min
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Copper Robot podcast interview about Makers
Mitch Wagner from the Second Life interview show Copper Robot has written up my interview there a couple weeks ago, in a Tor.com post called “A cheery conversation with Cory Doctorow about the upside of economic collapse.” He’s also included the audio, which I’m folding into my podcast feed. A cheery conversation with Cory Doctorow about the upside of economic collapse MP3 link
2010-01-22
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