Content · Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future

Content · Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
Authors
Doctorow, Cory
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Tags
writing , science , collections
ISBN
9781892391810
Date
2008-09-15T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.19 MB
Lang
en
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Hailed by Bruce Sterling as a “political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-around Renaissance geek,” Cory Doctorow is the Web’s most celebrated high-tech pop-culture maven. *Content* is the first collection of Doctorow’s infamous articles, essays, and polemics.

Here’s why Microsoft should stop treating its customers as criminals (through relentless digital-rights management); how America chose copyright and Happy Meal toys over jobs; why *Facebook* is taking a faceplant; how *Wikipedia* is a poor cousin of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; and, of course, why free e-books kick ass.

Accessible to geeks and noobs (if you’re not sure what that means, it’s you) alike, *Content* is a must-have compilation from Cory Doctorow, who will be glad to take you along for the ride as he effortlessly surfs the zeitgeist.