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Podcast: Petard, Part 03
Here’s the third part of my reading (MP3) of Petard (part one, part two), a story from MIT Tech Review’s Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Bruce Sterling; a story inspired by, and dedicated to, Aaron Swartz...
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Podcast: Petard, Part 04 — CONCLUSION
Here’s the fourth and final part of my reading (MP3) of Petard (part one, part two, part three), a story from MIT Tech Review’s Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Bruce Sterling; a story inspired by, and...
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Podcast: Let’s get better at demanding better from tech
Here’s my reading (MP3) of Let’s get better at demanding better from tech, a Locus Magazine column about the need to enlist moral, ethical technologists in the fight for a better technological future....
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg and his empire of oily rags
Surveillance capitalism sucks: it improves the scattershot, low-performance success-rate of untargeted advertising (well below 1 percent) and doubles or triples it (to well below 1 percent!). But...
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The economics of Walkaway
Edgeryders’ Alberto Cottica has published a detailed analysis of the economics of Walkaway, at the micro-, mezzo-, and macroscale. It’s a good, crisp analysis that really captures what I was going...
View ArticlePortuguese translation of Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags
Brent Longborough did me the enormous favor of translating my latest Locus column, Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags, into Portuguese, and sent it to me to publish. Cory Doctorow: Zuck e seu Império de Trapos...
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Podcast: Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags
Here’s my reading (MP3) of Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags, a Locus Magazine column about the corruption implicit in surveillance capitalism, which creates giant risks to users by collecting sensitive...
View ArticleSee you at Comic-Con!
I’m one of the “special guests” at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con! If you’re attending, I hope you’ll come by and see some of my programming items, especially my spotlight interview with Cecil...
View ArticleI’ll be live on BookTV’s In Depth on August 5!
I’m headed to DC to sit down in studio with BookTV’s “In Depth” on August 5; it’ll air live on Aug 5 at 12PM Eastern/9AM Pacific and be repeated on August 6 at 12AM Eastern/(9PM Pacific on Aug 5) and...
View ArticleTalking copyright, internet freedom, artistic business models, and antitrust...
I’m on the latest episode of Torrentfreak’s Steal This Show podcast (MP3), where I talk with host Jamie King about “Whether file-sharing & P2P communities have lost the battle to streaming services...
View ArticleMy closing keynote from the second Decentralized Web Summit
Two years ago, I delivered the closing keynote at the Internet Archive’s inaugural Decentralized Web event; last week, we had the second of these, and once again, I gave the closing keynote, entitled...
View ArticleCome see me at the Edinburgh Festival and/or Worldcon!
I’m heading to Scotland for the Edinburgh Festival where I’m appearing with the wonderful Ada Palmer on August 12th at 845PM (we’re talking about the apocalypse, science fiction and hopefulness); from...
View ArticleTalking the hard questions of privacy and freedom with the Yale Privacy Lab...
This week, I sat down for an hour-long interview with the Yale Privacy Lab‘s Sean O’Brien (MP3); Sean is a frequent Boing Boing contributor and I was honored that he invited me to be his guest on the...
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Talking surveillance, elections, monopolies, and Facebook on the Bots and...
Grant Burningham interviewed me for his Bots and Ballots podcast (MP3), covering a bunch of extremely timely tech-politics issues: Facebook and the impact of commercial surveillance on democratic...
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I’m heading to Burning Man! (here’s where to find me)
Hey you! I’m driving to the Playa this Thursday, and there’s a small but significant chance that you’ll be there too! If you’re around, come and say hi! Thursday, Aug 30 at noon: I’m co-hosting the...
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Deep dive into my backlist with the B&N Podcast
Talking with the B&N Podcast at San Diego Comic-Con is becoming an annual tradition for me; this year’s interview (MP3) with Joel Cunningham was a fun tour through my adult backlist, starting with...
View ArticleInterview with Fringe FM on Surveillance Capitalism, Big Tech and the future...
While at the World Science Fiction Convention, I sat down with Matt Ward from the FringeFM podcast for an interview (MP3) about the future of the internet, and how Shoshanna Zuboff’s notion of...
View ArticleInterview with EdSurge about educational technology, school surveillance,...
At this year’s World Science Fiction, Tina Nazerian from EdSurge interviewed me (MP3) for a podcast about the future of educational technology, open access, surveillance in schools, and educational...
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I’m heading to New York for a lecture series at Columbia!
Columbia University’s Brown Institute is hosting me for a trio of lectures later this month in New York City: I kick off with a conversation with the Brown’s Dennis Tenen about science fiction,...
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Don’t just fine Big Tech for abuses; instead, cut them down to size
My latest Locus Magazine column is Big Tech: We Can Do Better Than Constitutional Monarchies, and it’s a warning that the techlash is turning into a devil’s bargain, where we make Big Tech pay for a...
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