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Enshittification : How the Internet Went Bad and How to Get it Back
No full textThe collapse of the internet into "five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of text from the other four" wasn't inevitable. From privacy to harassment to garden-variety ripoffs, the internet's degradation was the result of identifiable policy choices that can - and must - be reversed. Learn how they broke the internet - and how we can fix it.Non UBCUnreviewedFacult
De cómo los derechos de autor deberían cambiar para ajustarse a la tecnología: (o, ¿desde cuándo es buena idea dejar que las discográficas diseñen los tocadiscos?. O de cómo arreglar los derechos de autor y salvar internet, la sociedad civil y la mayor biblioteca de la historia)
No full textCory Doctorow (Toronto, 1971), novelista y activista digital, visitó el CBA en enero de 2005 con motivo de la presentación pública de las licencias Creative Commons España. En este artículo, trascripción revisada de la conferencia que pronunció entonces, expone sus argumentos a favor de una transformación de la legislación sobre la propiedad intelectual para que se ajuste a las tecnologías de la comunicación contemporáneas
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Competitive compatibility: let's fix the internet, not the tech giants
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Enshittification ::why everything suddenly got worse and what to do about it /
No full text"We're living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It's frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying. Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution. When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say 'things are getting worse.' He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better). The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users--and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die. Doctorow's argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror. Here, now, in Enshittification the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and--most important--how they can be undone." -
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Car Wars
Get PDFA self-driving car is a computer you put your body in. Fiction by Cory Doctorow
Visions, needs and requirements for Future Research Environments: An Exploration with Computer Scientist and Science Fiction Author Cory Doctorow
No full textWe live in remarkable times: the world is changing at an increasing pace, our societies face challenges that extend across national and geographical borders, and we are flooded with (dis)information. The scientific process has already changed extraordinarily in the past half century with research environments evolving from isolated and loosely connected islands to dense networks of researcher and institutional cooperation. In order to develop and explore visions for research, science and society that give us ways into desirable futures an exploration series to consider different perspectives on how research will be conducted in the future was launched. This document contains the interview with Computer Scientist and Science Fiction Author Cory Doctorow
The Source of Magic
No full textThis paper is an attempt to show that a large part of Western society no longer operates on the rationalist principles that most of us thought it did, but that it instead runs by magic more akin to that in fantasy works. The term ‘magic’ is not meant metaphorically or in science fiction author Arthur C Clarke’s sense that ‘Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic’ (Clarke 1962), but is meant literally in the sense that Frazer (1890, republished 2003) used the term. This means that instead of trying to understand the present and near future by looking at the works of science fiction creators who put forth a rationalist and technological view of the world, we would understand the future better by looking to the fantasy of authors such as Jack Vance, Matthew Hughes, Ursula Le Guin, Piers Anthony and Michael Moorcock.
This magic is manifested through magical thinking and irrational behaviour, where the majority of us use literal spells and incantations in our daily interactions with each other in the networked world, and where we worship capricious gods; most importantly, those spells, incantations and worship actually work, and those gods have actually come to exist.
This paper will also show just how the spread of the computer technology propounded by scientists, technologists and SF writers has inevitably led to the creation of this irrational and magical world. This is partly because of limitations built-in to the formal systems on which these systems are based, leading to an extreme example of the law of unintended consequences. Finally, the paper will explain the mechanism by which magic is literally becoming real by reference to Frazer’s two laws of magic: the Law of Similarity and the Law of Contagion
Opportunities and challenges in the IoT: a conversation with Tim O'Reilly and Cory Doctorow
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