Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

The End of Trust is the first-ever nonfiction issue of McSweeney’s, co-edited by McSweeney’s editors and the staff of the Electronic Frontier Foundation; on December 11, we held a sold-out launch event in San Francisco with EFF executive director Cindy Cohn, science fiction writer and EFF alumna Annalee Newitz, and me. Lisa Rein recorded the... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2018/12/31/video-from-the-launch-of-the-eff-mcsweeneys-end-of-trust-project-launch-with-cindy-cohn-annalee-newitz-and-me/" class="more-link" title="Read Video from the launch of the EFF/McSweeney’s “End of Trust” project launch with Cindy Cohn, Annalee Newitz, and me!">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

An annual tradition (MP3)! Poesy is now 10 — nearly 11! — and this year, she’s decided to offer us a detailed makeup tutorial, with some bonus horseback riding advice. There’s even a musical number! MP3

Here’s my reading (MP3) of my Locus column, “What is the Internet For?” (which asks, “Is the internet a revolutionary technology?”) and my short story for the fiftieth anniversary of Reason Magazine, Sole and Despotic Dominion, which builds on my 2015 Guardian column, If Dishwashers Were iPhones. MP3

When I was in Berlin last month, I stopped into the offices of Netzpolitik (previously), the outstanding German digital rights activist group, where I recorded an interview for their podcast (MP3), talking about science fiction, utopianism, dystopianism, how we can change the world, and why my kid has so many names.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act — tech’s stupidest law — turns 20 this year; I chatted with Molly Wood on Marketplace Tech about the law’s history and how dismally little we’ve learned from it, repeating and even magnifying its mistakes today. (MP3)

It’s been two years since I last sat down with Jason Klamm for his Comedy on Vinyl podcast (we were discussing Allan Sherman’s My Son, The Nut); we were past due for a rematch. Jason asked me to come on one more time (MP3) to discuss the Disneyland Little Long Playing Record The Story and... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2018/10/01/talking-about-ron-howards-haunted-mansion-album-with-the-comedy-on-vinyl-podcast/" class="more-link" title="Read Talking about Ron Howard’s Haunted Mansion album with the Comedy on Vinyl podcast">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s my reading (MP3) of Today, Europe Lost The Internet. Now, We Fight Back, written for EFF Deeplinks on the morning of the EU’s catastrophic decision to vote in the new Copyright Directive with all its worst clauses intact. MP3

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 freedom.

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 surveillance capitalism connects up with mass inequality, the GDPR, the upcoming EU copyright rules, and the future of writing and science fiction.

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 my debut novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and working our way through all six books, which Tor just reissued... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2018/08/22/deep-dive-into-my-backlist-with-the-bn-podcast/" class="more-link" title="Read Deep dive into my backlist with the B&N Podcast">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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 elections; Alex Jones, censorship and market concentration; and monopolism and the future of the internet.

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 very first episode of the Lab’s new podcast. As you might imagine, Sean had some sophisticated —... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2018/08/10/talking-the-hard-questions-of-privacy-and-freedom-with-the-yale-privacy-lab-podcast/" class="more-link" title="Read Talking the hard questions of privacy and freedom with the Yale Privacy Lab podcast">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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 like Netflix and Spotify, and why the ‘copyfight’ is still important; how the European Copyright Directive eats at the fabric of the Web,... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2018/08/07/talking-copyright-internet-freedom-artistic-business-models-and-antitrust-with-steal-this-show/" class="more-link" title="Read Talking copyright, internet freedom, artistic business models, and antitrust with Steal This Show">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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 information about them in order to eke out tiny gains in the efficacy of targeted advertising. The commercial surveillance industry may not be very good... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2018/07/16/podcast-zucks-empire-of-oily-rags/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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. It was written before the death of EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow, whose life’s work was devoted to this proposition, and before... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2018/06/25/podcast-lets-get-better-at-demanding-better-from-tech/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: Let’s get better at demanding better from tech">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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 dedicated to, Aaron Swartz — about elves, Net Neutrality, dorms and the collective action problem. MP3

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 — about elves, Net Neutrality, dorms and the collective action problem. MP3

I recorded a great interview (MP3) about my novel Walkaway and how it fits into radical politics; a free, fair and open internet; the Nym Wars, parenting, and insurgency.

Earlier this spring, while I was on my Australia/NZ tour, I sat down with Australian author Nick Earls for his Green Room show, (MP3) to gossip, complain, and daydream about the writer’s life.

Here’s the second part of my reading (MP3) of Petard (part one), a story from MIT Tech Review’s Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Bruce Sterling; a story inspired by, and dedicated to, Aaron Swartz — about elves, Net Neutrality, dorms and the collective action problem. MP3

Thomson Reuters interviewed me for their new series on data privacy and the EU General Data Protection Regulation; here’s the audio! What if you just said when you breach, the damages that you owe to the people whose data you breached cannot be limited to the immediate cognizable consequences of that one breach but instead... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2018/05/09/talking-privacy-and-gdpr-with-thomson-reuters/" class="more-link" title="Read Talking privacy and GDPR with Thomson Reuters">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s the first part of my reading (MP3) of Petard, a story from MIT Tech Review’s Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Bruce Sterling; a story inspired by, and dedicated to, Aaron Swartz — about elves, Net Neutrality, dorms and the collective action problem. MP3

Last month, while at Adelaide Writers Week, I sat down with the excellent Georgina Godwin to record an interview (MP3) for Monocole’s “Meet the Writers” podcast. They’ve only just published it and I’m very pleased with how it turned out: we got into some territory that I don’t usually cover. Also: they had the interview... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2018/04/14/interview-with-monocles-meet-the-writers/" class="more-link" title="Read Interview with Monocle’s Meet the Writers">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s the eighth and final part of my reading (MP3) (part seven, part six, part five, part four, part three, part two, part one) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novella first published in 2015’s Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future, edited by Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer. It’s my... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2018/04/04/podcast-the-man-who-sold-the-moon-part-08-the-final-installment/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 08: the FINAL INSTALLMENT">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s part seven of my reading (MP3) (part six, part five, part four, part three, part two, part one) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novella first published in 2015’s Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future, edited by Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer. It’s my Burning Man/maker/first days of a... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2018/03/26/podcast-the-man-who-sold-the-moon-part-07/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 07">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s part six of my reading (MP3) (part five, part four, part three, part two, part one) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novella first published in 2015’s Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future, edited by Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer. It’s my Burning Man/maker/first days of a better nation... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2018/03/18/podcast-the-man-who-sold-the-moon-part-06-fixed/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 06 [FIXED]">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s part five of my reading (MP3) (part four, part three, part two, part one) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novella first published in 2015’s Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future, edited by Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer. It’s my Burning Man/maker/first days of a better nation story and... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2018/03/18/podcast-the-man-who-sold-the-moon-part-05-fixed/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 05 [FIXED]">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

I was one of the interview subjects on an episode of BBC’s Tomorrow’s World called Do We Need a New Internet? (MP3); it’s a fascinating documentary, including some very thoughtful commentary from Edward Snowden.

Here’s part four of my reading (MP3) (part three, part two, part one) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novella first published in 2015’s Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future, edited by Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer. It’s my Burning Man/maker/first days of a better nation story and was a... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2018/02/12/the-man-who-sold-the-moon-part-04-fixed/" class="more-link" title="Read The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 04 [FIXED]">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s part three of my reading (MP3) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novella first published in 2015’s Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future, edited by Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer. It’s my Burning Man/maker/first days of a better nation story and was a kind of practice run for my... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2018/01/30/podcast-the-man-who-sold-the-moon-part-03/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 03">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s part two of my reading (MP3) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novella first published in 2015’s Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future, edited by Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer. It’s my Burning Man/maker/first days of a better nation story and was a kind of practice run for my... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2018/01/16/the-man-who-sold-the-moon-part-02/" class="more-link" title="Read The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 02">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Back in 2010, I appeared as a guest on the National Science Teachers Association’s Lab Out Loud podcast, and this year, they had me back as part of their celebration of their first decade; they’ve just published the interview, (MP3) which was primarily about my novel Walkaway.

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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2018/01/05/a-hopeful-look-at-the-apocalypse-an-interview-with-pris-innovation-hub/" class="more-link" title="Read A Hopeful Look At The Apocalypse: An interview with PRI’s Innovation Hub">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s part one of my reading (MP3) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novella first published in 2015’s Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future, edited by Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer. It’s my Burning Man/maker/first days of a better nation story and was a kind of practice run for my... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2018/01/02/podcast-the-man-who-sold-the-moon-part-01/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 01">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

For nearly every year since my daughter Poesy was old enough to sing, we’ve recorded a Christmas podcast; but we missed it in 2016, due to the same factors that made the podcast itself dormant for a couple years — my crazy busy schedule. But this year, we’re back, with my off-key accompaniment to her... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2017/12/23/reviving-my-christmas-daddy-daughter-podcast-with-poesy/" class="more-link" title="Read Reviving my Christmas daddy-daughter podcast, with Poesy!">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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.... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2017/12/16/talking-walkaway-on-the-barnes-and-noble-podcast/" class="more-link" title="Read Talking Walkaway on the Barnes and Noble podcast">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2017/10/19/talking-walkaway-on-the-cnet-book-club-podcast/" class="more-link" title="Read Talking Walkaway on the CNet book-club podcast">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2017/07/29/a-hopeful-look-at-the-apocalypse-interview-with-innovation-hub/" class="more-link" title="Read A Hopeful Look At The Apocalypse: interview with Innovation Hub">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Back in May, I stopped by Wired UK while on my British tour for my novel Walkaway to talk about the novel, surveillance, elections, and, of course, DRM. (MP3)

Last month, I appeared onstage with Edward Snowden at the NYPL, hosted by Paul Holdengraber, discussing my novel Walkaway. The library has just posted the audio! It was quite an evening

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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2017/06/15/talking-about-contestable-futures-on-the-imaginary-worlds-podcast/" class="more-link" title="Read Talking about contestable futures on the Imaginary Worlds podcast">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2017/05/29/my-guest-appearance-on-hello-from-the-magic-tavern/" class="more-link" title="Read My guest-appearance on Hello From the Magic Tavern">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Last week I sat down with Mike Masnick, the crusading technology journalist who coined the “Streisand Effect” and runs the fantastic site Techdirt, and we had a good, chewy discussion (MP3) about my new novel Walkaway; he’s just posted it to the Techdirt podcast. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

The National Endowment for the Arts podcast recorded a great, wide-ranging interview with me (MP3) about my novel Walkaway and a variety of subjects, from copyright reform to arts funding to the future of the arts and technology.

Here’s Wil Wheaton reading “Communist Party,” the opening chapter of “Walkaway,” my first novel for adults since 2009’s “Makers.” Wil is joined on the independently produced audiobook by Amber Benson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Amanda Palmer (The Dresden Dolls), Mirron Willis, Gabrielle de Cuir, Lisa Renee Pitts and Justine Eyre. It was directed by Gabrielle... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2017/05/01/announcing-the-walkaway-audiobook-with-wil-wheaton-amber-benson-amanda-palmer-and-more/" class="more-link" title="Read Announcing the Walkaway audiobook, with Wil Wheaton, Amber Benson, Amanda Palmer and more!">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

My novel Walkaway came out today and I sat down yesterday with the Author Stories Podcast to talk about writing, publishing, and, of course, the novel.

In the latest episode of Reply All, a fantastic tech podcast, the hosts and producers discuss the situation with DRM, the future of the web, and the W3C — a piece I’ve been working on them with for a year now. The issue is a complicated and eye-glazingly technical one, and they do a genuinely... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2017/03/02/reply-all-covers-drm-and-the-w3c/" class="more-link" title="Read Reply All covers DRM and the W3C">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Last month, Melbourne’s Deakin University published Car Wars, a short story I wrote to inspire thinking and discussion about the engineering ethics questions in self-driving car design, moving beyond the trite and largely irrelevant trolley problem. Shortly after, I went into Skyboat Media’s studio and recorded an audio edition of the story, which the Deakin... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2016/12/21/free-audiobook-of-car-wars-my-self-driving-carcrypto-back-door-apocalypse-story/" class="more-link" title="Read Free audiobook of Car Wars, my self-driving car/crypto back-door apocalypse story">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Kirby Ferguson, who created the remarkable Everything is a Remix series, has a new podcast hosted by the Recreate Coalition called Copy This and he hosted me on the debut episode (MP3) where we talked about copying, creativity, artists, and the future of the internet (as you might expect!). Are you one of the many... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2016/12/08/everything-is-a-remix-including-star-wars-and-thats-how-i-became-a-writer/" class="more-link" title="Read Everything is a Remix, including Star Wars, and that’s how I became a writer">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

I was interviewed for the IEEE-USA Insight Podcast last summer in New Orleans, during their Future Leaders Summit, where I was privileged to give the keynote (MP3)