If it were a “Black Mirror” episode it would be too on the nose. Renowned tech critic Cory Doctorow’s book “Enshittification” hasn’t even been out for a single day, and Amazon is already peddling ...

We all feel it: Our once-happy digital spaces have become increasingly less user-friendly and more toxic, cluttered with extras nobody asked for and hardly anybody wants. There’s even a word for it: ...

Writer Cory Doctorow returns to Democracy Now! to discuss his new book Enshittification, which explores the term he coined in 2022 to describe how online platforms like Facebook degrade over time as ...

In the last two years, iPhone customers may have been pleasantly surprised to see a standardized USB-C charger port, allowing them to dispose of Apple’s custom Lightning wires. The world’s 1.5 billion ...

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When it comes to tech doomsaying, few are as cynical — or prescient — as sci-fi author and tech journalist Cory Doctorow. For better or worse, Doctorow’s insights have often been a much-needed mirror ...

Renowned journalist and science fiction author Cory Doctorow is convinced that the AI is doomed to drop off a cliff. “Of course AI is a bubble,” he wrote in a recent piece for sci-fi magazine Locus.

Cory Doctorow, author of “Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It,” makes a point at a presentation at the Seattle Central Library while moderator Whitney Beltrán ...

This first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. Sign up here! A few years ago, Cory Doctorow coined a word that took the internet by storm. It appeared everywhere, including in our newsletter that ...

Cory Doctorow’s new book looks to offer comfort, and solutions, to the inescapable feeling that digital platforms have gotten worse. In his novels and new book, Cory Doctorow asks whether technology ...