Cory Doctorow - Little Brother

00:00 | Trailer
01:57 Brian’s thoughts on the episode
04:47 Brian’s Introduction
05:24 Cory’s observations on the UK and World property market
10:03 The impact upon the poor of rising property prices
11:56 Pros and cons of living in Burbank, Los Angeles State
15:13 View from America of the forthcoming Presidential election
17:40 Five years on from ‘Trumpism’, what may be happening if we’re not digging through the rubble
28:10 Cory fears a major risk is people’s nihilism, but the contradictions are not intractable31:03 What connecting with characters and situations in books and allows people to do
39:34 Authors and fanfic
41:00 How Cory started writing and persevering when feeling uninspired
44
57 How Cory manages to be such a prolific writer
47:24 Taking a broader vision of what it means to be published
53:02 Difference between a blog and publishing
56:00 Publishing, the discipline of doing something for someone else
58:18 Team building and team performance
1:01:00 Managing daily family routines around a working couple
1:02:20 Cory’s role at MIT Media Lab and the Forbidden Research project
1:14:53 What Aaron Swartz’ suicide has emphasized
1:22:14 Using the hill climbing algorithm analogy when there seems no way forward
1:23:38 Cory defines his role as an activist
1:24:24 The reasons for Cory’s involvement in the SOPA and Mozilla campaigns
1:34:26 A future world where our assets cease to be ours
1:35:39 What in future we should be aware of from Google, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft
1:39:51 Two fundamental principles for future use of computers and systems
1:41:48 Which vision of the future are we heading towards, ‘1984’ or ‘Brave New World’
1:42:32 Cory’s view of the future for social media
1:48:28 What the future looks like in Cory’s next book ‘Walk Away’
1:51:19 Burning Man, Black Rock Desert, Nevada
1:51:28 A post-scarcity society
1:52:42 What is meant by positional goods
1:55:45 Example of a post-scarcity world
1:58:09 Exciting initial response to ‘Walk Away’
1:58:42 Success Secrets
1:59:33 Does Cory ever fear for his safety or feel watched
2:04:07 Phone call to the 20 year old Cory Doctorow
2:05:13 Best advice ever received
2:06:04 Advice to young people who don’t want to have privacy issues in later life
2:09:36 Brian’s summing up.