Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. Cory is the MIT Media Lab’s Activist in Residence and a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. He also holds an honorary doctorate in computer science from the Open University (UK), where he is a Visiting Professor.
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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
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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.
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