Cory Doctorow

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Mark Zuckerberg and his empire of oily rags

2018417 points232 comments Society, Policy & Culture details

Surveillance capitalism sucks: it improves the scattershot, low-performance success-rate of untargeted advertising (well below 1 percent) and doubles or triples it (to well below 1 percent!).

“Printcrime” by Cory Doctorow

2013135 points77 commentscited by 7Life, Learning & Writing details

This story appears in my collection Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present , 2007

When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth (2007)

2014102 points18 commentscited by 13Life, Learning & Writing details

This story is part of Cory Doctorow’s 2007 short story collection “Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present,” published by Thunder’s Mouth, a division of Avalon Books. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license, about which you’ll find more at the end of this file.