Cory Doctorow: Covid-19, Dystopia, and Adversarial Interoperability

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger -- the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of young adult novels like PIRATE CINEMA and LITTLE BROTHER and novels for adults like RAPTURE OF THE NERDS and MAKERS. He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London and is pictured here in his office.

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. He is the author of RADICALIZED and WALKAWAY and other novels, short stories, and nonfiction. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University, a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of South Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles.

In this episode of our Plutopia News Network podcast, Cory discusses how Covid-19 is “pulling a lot of failure modes into stark relief,” how speculative fiction could be laying the groundwork for graceful failure, the availability heuristic, and how (re. copyright) a lever without a fulcrum is just a stick.

More Cory:
Blog: http://pluralistic.net.
Newsletter: https://pluralistic.net/plura-list
Books: http://craphound.com
Twitter: @doctorow
Tumblr: https://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/

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