Interview with Cory Doctorow about his new sci-fi book Attack Surface, the third work in his Little Brother series that influenced hacktivists like Aaron Swartz
Cory Doctorow's Little Brother series has been a young-adult sci-fi bible for teen hacktivists. But with the latest and darkest book in the trilogy, it's all grown up.
Wired Andy Greenberg
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Derek Moore
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The “Social Dilemma” supposes that tech geniuses figured out how to use machine learning to control minds. “And that's the problem - the mind control thing they designed to sell you fidget spinners got hijacked to make your uncle racist” 1/2 https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
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Andy Greenberg
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I interviewed @doctorow about the influence his Little Brother young-adult sci-fi books have had on a generation of hackers—and why the latest, now-fully-adult third book in the series takes a much darker approach to tech, surveillance and politics. https://www.wired.com/...
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Oisn Murphy-Lawless
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My copy of Little Brother will be soon on its way to my eldest kid. I remember being gripped by it when I read it, so it's great to hear that number three will be out shortly. So much has happened since the original novel, and I look forward to seeing how Cory processes it all. h…
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@doctorow
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My next book, Attack Surface - AKA Little Brother 3 - drops in the US/Canada tomorrow (it's came out in other English-speaking countries on Oct 1) and today, @wired's @a_greenberg published his review of the series and the new book. It's excellent. https://www.wired.com/... 1/ ht…
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Prole Grammar
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CZI is the epidemy of what @doctorow called “the fallacy of the ledger”, do not collaborate with them, shame them into oblivion https://www.theguardian.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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Amber Mac
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“The tech activist on his new sci-fi novel and why we mustn't treat the moral downsides of social media as a necessary evil” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
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@trekonomics
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“...the mind control thing they designed to sell you fidget spinners got hijacked to make your uncle racist.” @doctorow pulls no punches. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
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Charlie Higson
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Couldn't agree more with the comments from @doctorow here https://www.theguardian.com/ ... tech types think they run the world as do politicians, but it's all a lot messier than that.
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Jeffrey Vagle
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Two of my favorite writers, @doctorow and @a_greenberg, brought together over one of my favorite topics. https://twitter.com/...
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Damini Satija
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“In technological circles, there's a quantitative fallacy that if you can't do maths on it, you can just ignore it. And so you just incinerate the qualitative elements and do maths on the dubious quantitative residue that remains.” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...