ON THIS WEEK’S episode of Have a Nice Future, Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode talk to Cory Doctorow, a writer, internet activist, and author of The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation. As the US government takes Google to court in an antitrust case this week, Doctorow explains why he believes monopoly power has made the internet a miserable place and what we can do to get our digital lives back.
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Note: This is an automated transcript, which may contain errors.
Lauren: I lost you there for some reason. I’m so sorry. I think it was the internet.
Gideon: Oh, OK. Oh, the bloody internet again.
[Music]
Gideon: Hi, I’m Gideon Lichfield.
Lauren: And I’m Lauren Goode, and this is Have a Nice Future, a podcast about how terrifyingly fast everything is changing.
Gideon: Each week, we talk to someone with big, audacious, and sometimes unnerving ideas about the future, and we ask them how we can all prepare to live in it.
Lauren: Our guest this week is Cory Doctorow. He’s a writer, an internet activist, a senior adviser to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and he’s the author of a new book called The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.
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