{"id":2580,"date":"2025-07-15T04:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T04:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/?page_id=2580"},"modified":"2025-07-18T20:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:57:07","slug":"cory-doctorow","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/speakers\/cory-doctorow\/","title":{"rendered":"Cory Doctorow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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With Great Power Came No Responsibility: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It<\/h3>\n\n\n\nCory Doctorow
<\/strong>Blogger, journalist, and science fiction author\n\n\n\nCory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. His latest novels are PICKS AND SHOVELS and THE BEZZLE (followups to RED TEAM BLUES) and THE LOST CAUSE, a solarpunk science fiction novel of hope amidst the climate emergency. His most recent nonfiction book is THE INTERNET CON: HOW TO SEIZE THE MEANS OF COMPUTATION, a Big Tech disassembly manual. He is the author of the international young adult LITTLE BROTHER series. He is also the author of CHOKEPOINT CAPITALISM (with Rebecca Giblin), about creative labor markets and monopoly; and HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, nonfiction about conspiracies and monopolies. He maintains a daily blog at Pluralistic.net. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University, a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina\u2019s School of Library and Information Science and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. In 2022, he earned the Sir Arthur Clarke Imagination in Service to Society Awardee for lifetime achievement. In 2024, the Media Ecology Association awarded him the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. York University (Canada) made him an Honorary Doctor of Laws; and the Open University (UK) made him an Honorary Doctor of Computer Science.
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Daily blog: Pluralistic.net<\/mark><\/a>
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