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Little Brother optioned by Paramount
My bestselling 2008 novel YA novel Little Brother has been optioned by Paramount, with Don Murphy (Natural Born Killers, Transformers) as the producer. Suffice it to say, I’m pretty excited about...
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Dear Internet of Things: human beings are not things
My new Locus column is What If People Were Sensors, Not Things to be Sensed? The column’s argument is that the Facebook model for the IoT is a nightmare: your devices are emissaries of distant...
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NYC to-do: “Art, Design, and The Future of Privacy,” Sept 17
A night of talks and conversations about privacy and tech, centered on humane design and user-experience — I’m speaking there! There’s a really full roster of hackers, cryptographers, designers,...
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My novel “Utopia” will hit shelves in 2017
My biggest (and, IMO, best) adult novel has just sold to Tor for a very pleasing sum of money; it will hit shelves in 2017. Here’s my editor in Publishers Weekly: The novel, which marks Doctorow’s...
View ArticleHow to save online advertising
My latest Guardian column, How to save online advertising, looks at the writing on the wall for ad-blockers and ad-supported publishing, and suggests one way to keep ads viable. The mistrust between...
View ArticleData breaches are winning the privacy wars, so what should privacy advocates do?
Data breaches are winning the privacy wars, so what should privacy advocates do? My latest Guardian column, “Why is it so hard to convince people to care about privacy,” argues that the hard part of...
View ArticleSee me in Utah, Boston, Toronto and Waterloo!
This/next week, I’m speaking in events in Park City, Utah (Future in Review); Boston (The Freedom to Innovate Summit, the Berkman Center and Suffolk University); Toronto (Seneca College); Markham (In...
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Korean edition of Little Brother
It hits shelves today, featuring an essay I wrote specifically for this edition, tying together Korean politics — especially surveillance and censorship — with global mass-surveillance and the themes...
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How a mathematician teaches “Little Brother” to a first-year seminar
Derek Bruff teaches a first-year college writing seminar in mathematics, an unusual kind of course that covers a lot of ground, and uses a novel as some of its instructional material — specifically,...
View ArticleCome see me at Santa Monica’s Diesel Books on Thursday
We’re launching the new paperback edition of “Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, my book of practical advice and theory for artists trying to make sense of the net (it features intros by Neil Gaiman...
View ArticleScholarly article on activism and technology in my YA novels
Anika Ullmann, a graduate student in Cultural Studies Leuphana University in Luneberg, Germany, has published a paper on the relationship of my young adult novels to political radicalism, the hacker...
View ArticleThe Internet will always suck
Have you ever wondered why the Internet is always just a little bit too slow to support the kind of activity you’re trying to undertake? My latest Locus column, The Internet Will Always Suck,...
View ArticleTurns out that “unsubscribing” from spam actually works
After my spam hit a point where I couldn’t actually download my email faster than it was arrivingI spent a month clicking the unsubscribe links in all the spams in my inbox. Weirdly, it worked. What’s...
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I won the Comment Awards prize for Technology and Digital Commentator of the...
I woke this morning to the delightful news that I won Editorial Intelligence’s 2015 prize for Technology and Digital Commentator of the Year for my work on the Guardian. I’m honoured and delighted —...
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Authors Alliance guide to Open Access
The Authors Alliance, a nonprofit writers’ organization, conducted a wide-ranging piece of research on the experience of authors with open access publishing, including my own experiences with Creative...
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Outstanding critical review of Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free in the LA...
McKenzie Wark, author of the classic Hacker Manifesto, has written a long, smart review of my book Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free (now in paperback) for the Los Angeles Review of Books. It’s a...
View ArticleWide-ranging interview (surveillance, DRM, copyfight, climate, class war) in...
Chris Zappone’s published a long, wide-ranging interview with me in the Sydney Morning Herald where I try to connect the dots between digital rights, surveillance, climate change, and wealth...
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I Can’t Let You Do That, Dave: why computer scientists should care about DRM
I have an editorial in the current issue of Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery, a scholarly journal for computer scientists, in which I describe the way that laws that protect...
View ArticleFree talk on surveillance, copyright and DRM tomorrow in Berlin: “PINEAPPLE!”
I’m in Berlin to speak at OEB, a conference on technology and education. It costs a hefty sum to attend the whole event, but my talk tomorrow at 1200h, “No Matter who’s Winning the War on General...
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What I told the kid who wanted to join the NSA
In my latest Guardian column, I tell the story of my recent lecture at West Point’s Cyber Institute, where a young cadet took me aside as asked what I thought of their plans for joining the NSA. The...
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