Cory Doctorow
Cory is European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a co-editor at Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and an award-winning science fiction writer (craphound.com/est). He lives in London, England.
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The Half-Life of Stuff
When code doesnt work, we erase it. When stuff doesnt work, most of it goes to landfill.
In
Make Free
from MAKE:
29: DIY Superhuman page 31
What My Wife Taught Me About Toys Today
Can 3D printing bring toy making back home?
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Make Free
from MAKE:
28: Toys and Games page 33
Four Horsemen of the 3D Printing Apocalypse
Pro-regulation hysterics make recourse to the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse: child porn, organized crime, terrorist, and pirates.
In
Make Free
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27: Robots page 31
Moral Suasion
A wake-up call for anyone who's blithely relying on the cloud.
In
Make Free
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26: Karts and Wheels page 31
Untouched by Human Hands
Is there a boardroom somewhere trying to figure out how to make your next Happy Meal toy, laptop, or Ikea table look like it was handmade by a MAKE reader?
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Make Free
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25: Microcontrollers and Arduino page 16
Memento Mori
The standard explanation for the attractiveness of older technology is simply that They Made It Better In The Old Days. But this isn't necessarily or even usually true.
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Make Free
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24: Space page 16
Walled Gardens vs. Makers
Making is about sharing. The reason we can make so much today is because the basic knowledge, skills, and tools to make anything are already on the ground, a loam in which our inspiration can germinate.
In
Make Free
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23: Gadgets page 16
Are You the Scanner or the Barcode?
Would you rather be emitter or sensor?
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Make Free
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22: Remote Control / Wireless page 10
Who You Calling Unoriginal?
Reinventing the wheel is not mandatory.
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Make Free
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21: Desktop Manufacturing page 14
Shortcut to Omniscience
Wikipedia's secret weapon and its greatest weakness.
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Make Free
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20: For Kids of All Ages page 14
Positive Externalities
Fight against the greed of a small band of vocal dinosaurs.
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Make Free
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19: Robots page 17
Open Government
There's never a good reason for the government to keep its everyday workings a secret from the people who own it: the citizenry.
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Make Free
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18: ReMake America page 17
Love the Machine, Hate the Factory
The biggest appeal of steampunk is that it exalts the machine and disparages the mechanization of human creativity.
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Make Free
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17: Lost Knowledge page 14
Selectable Output Control
Hollywood's most insane idea yet.
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Make Free
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16: Spy Tech page 14
Gander Sauce for Hollywood
Cory Doctorow advocates the entertainment industry take a little bit of their own sauce.
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Make Free
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15: Music page 14
Too Much Time on My Hands
All creative endeavor begins with just fooling around. Enjoy it.
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Make Free
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14: Optics page 14
Predicting the Present
Science fiction writers may not accurately predict the future, but they're often excellent predictors of the present.
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Make Free
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13: Magic page 14
Make Free
The great, perverse joy of steampunk.
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Make Free
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12: Upload page 24
Attack, Defend
Nearly ten years after the invention of Napster, there's more file sharing than ever.
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Make Free
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11: Alt Vehicles page 15
Agree to Disagree
Bogus agreements are everywhere. Void them.
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Make Free
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10: Home Electronics page 15
I Agree
In order to "protect intellectual property," these bandits are perfectly willing to take away your rights to your physical, personal property.
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Make Free
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09: Fringe page 15
High-Definition = Highly Deadly
Forget plugging in a PC or Slingbox. Goodbye open platforms, hello monopoly lockware.
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Make Free
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08: Toys and Games page 16
A for Anything
Creative destruction opens more doors than it closes.
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Make Free
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07: Backyard Biology page 16
A House Divided
Hollywood feels the sting of its own copyright laws.
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Make Free
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06: Robots page 26
Cogs and Cocktails
Meet the drink-serving, drunk-driving droids at Roboexotica.
From MAKE:
06: Robots page 65
Traitors to History
A copyright-controlled museum is a crime against humanity.
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Make Free
from MAKE:
05: Science, Weather, and Outdoors page 16
RIP: Rip, Mix, Burn
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Make Free
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04: Music and Kits for the Holidays page 183
Real Security Vs. Junk Science
Why copy-restriction technology succeeds only in hurting the user.
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Make Free
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03: Cars and Halloween page 10
The Last Generation of Engineers
Why digital rights management kills innovation.
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Make Free
from MAKE:
02: Home Entertainment page 187
Hacking the Dog
Who says you have to spend thousands of dollars to get a cool robot? The world's toy stores brim with cheap-ass, rough and ready robotic platforms just begging to be modded. Meet a hacker who converts toy robots into toxic waste dump avengers.
In
Make Free
from MAKE:
01: Make Premiere page 22










