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

by Cory Doctorow, John Perry Barlow, Richard Powers Narrated by Richard Powers

Overview

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.

Editorial Reviews

Booklist

Doctorow here proves he's smart, funny, and good at accessibly boiling down issues he's passionate about . . . a pleasure to read, not to mention thought-provoking.

mattselznick.com

If all those Generation Z and proto-Singularity kids reading Doctorow's Little Brother also find their way to Content, this book may well become a classic.

Time Out Chicago

The most articulate and accessible writer engaged in these topics.

TeleReads

A nice collection of essays

Electronic Frontier Foundation

More than just insightful, brilliant, and to the point—it's also funny and fun to read.

From the Publisher

"“Doctorow here proves he’s smart, funny, and good at accessibly boiling down issues he’s passionate about.... [A] pleasure to read, not to mention thought-provoking.”
-—Booklist

“"More than just insightful, brilliant, and to the point—it’s also funny and fun to read.”
-—Electronic Frontier Foundation

“If you want to know what’s happening at the sharp end of digital publication and new ideas about the relationships between authors and their readers—do yourself a favour and listen to what he has to say.”
—-Mantex

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169719970
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	05/05/2015
Edition description:	Unabridged

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