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ABOUT OUR GUEST

Photo credit: Jonathan Worth
Episode image: © Julia Galdo and Cody Cloud (JUCO)

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist. He is a contributor to many magazines, websites and newspapers, and a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties.

He holds an honorary doctorate in computer science from the Open University in the UK, where he is a visiting professor, and is also a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate. and a visiting professor of practice at the University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science. In 2007, he served as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.

Cory’s recent books include Attack Surface (2020), a science fiction novel and standalone sequel to Little Brother intended for adults, Poesy the Monster Slayer (2020), a picture book for young children, How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (2020), a non-fiction tech/politics book, Radicalized (2019), a collection of novellas, Walkaway (2017), a science fiction novel for adults, and In Real Life (2014), a young adult graphic novel created with Jen Wang.

Further details:
Craphound.com
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EPISODE RESOURCES

Debt: The First 5, 000 Years
by David Graber
Melville House

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
by Rebecca Solnit
Penguin

Capital in the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas Piketty
Harvard University Press

The Nature of the Firm
by Ronald Coase
Economica

Austerity Ecology and the Collapse-Porn Addicts
by Leigh Phillips
Zer0 Books

Library Socialism (podcast)
Srsly Wrong

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
by Elinor Ostrom
Cambridge University Press

A Fine is a Price
by Uri Gneezy and Aldo Rustichini
The Journal of Legal Studies

Murder Offsets (video)
by Climate Ad Network

Computer says no: the people trapped in universal credit’s ‘black hole’by by Robert Booth
The Guardian

The Counterfeiters trailer (video)
by Stefan Ruzowitzky (director)

The Guardian view on scientific progress: stifled by the profit motive
The Guardian

Scientist’s mRNA obsession once cost her a job, now it’s key to Covid-19 vaccine
by Issam Ahmed
The Times of Israel

The People’s Republic of Walmart
by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Penguin

Ayn Rand-loving CEO destroys his empire
by Lynn  Parramore
Salon

Contrary to popular and academic belief, Adam Smith did not accept inequality as a necessary trade-off for a more prosperous economy
by Deborah Boucoyannis
LSE

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff
PublicAffairs Books

A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization
by Robert M. Bond, Christopher J. Fariss, et al.
NCBI

Electronics right to repair
Wikipedia

How interoperability could end Facebook’s death grip on social media
by Mark Sullivan
Fast Company

Apple’s Switch campaign
Wikipedia

Why you keep using Facebook, even if you hate it
by A.J. Chavar
Vox

How Robert Bork fathered the new Gilded Age
by Sandeep Vaheesan
ProMarket

America’s Monopolies Are Holding Back the Economy
by Barry C. Lynn
The Atlantic

EU SMEs in bid for greater interoperability in Digital Markets Act
by Samuel Stolton
EURACTIV

Congress could require Facebook to build more open APIs under new bill
by Makena Kelly
The Verge

Citizenfour trailer (video)
by Laura Poitras (director)