Cory Doctorow

Why is the phone emitting and the world sensing? Why not build the sensors into the phone and the emitters...

There’s a strain of thinking that says it’s cheating to innovate by remixing or reconfiguring other people’s existing inventions.

The Encyclopædia Britannica contains facts. Wikipedia contains facts about facts. This is Wikipedia’s secret weapon and its greatest weakness.

There’s never a good reason for the government to keep its everyday workings a secret from the people who own...

The biggest appeal of steampunk is that it exalts the machine and disparages the mechanization of human creativity.

The entertainment industry is obsessed with kicking people off the internet.

I suspect the future is probably weirder than the Singularity (it’s usually weirder than we think). But the popularity of...