Novelist and Activist Cory Doctorow - Fear and Loathing in Silicon Valley
Blogger, author, and activist Cory Doctorow is the most provocative, original, and widely admired thinker on the politics of Big Tech writing today.
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Show Notes
Whether anticipating the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in his short story Radicalised, helping the world to wake up to the grift of the social media giants through his concept of 'Enshittification', or imagining a genuinely better world to replace the dystopia of our present in novels like The Lost Cause and Walkaway, Cory Doctorow is equally accomplished as an award-winning storyteller and as an analyst of our present and near future.
His new series of noirish crime thrillers transport us into a Silicon Valley where grifters, gangsters, and plutocrats wreak chaos. Cory's decades of firsthand experience of the Valley and deep thought about the relationship between technology and power imbue every page with authenticity and insight. He joins us to reveal the crimes at the heart of the latest book, Picks and Shovels, and the real life misdemeanours that inspired the novel.
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