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🗓️ 4 October 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Have you noticed your internet is …. kinda shitty? Does Spotfiy’s smart shuffle keep playing the same Cure song over and over again? Does a quick google search give you page after page of obvious advertisements? Want to leave Facebook behind but that one group chat keeps you checking in day after day?
Well have I got the book for you. It’s The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation. It’s a little bit history, it’s a little bit manifesto, and it’s all about one simple concept that can help us get out of this mess: interoperability.
Here with me today to discuss is the book's author, Cory Doctorow. Doctorow is a writer, activist, and journalist.
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0:00.0 | Captain, he's got the code it's going to launch. |
0:10.3 | It's a unit system. |
0:12.7 | I know this. |
0:14.7 | It's how all the files of the whole park. |
0:16.9 | It tells her everything. |
0:18.7 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
0:21.4 | Eagle One. The package is being delivered. |
0:25.2 | Hello out there on the internet. |
0:26.7 | I am Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber. |
0:29.5 | Have you noticed that your internet is kind of shitty lately? |
0:32.9 | Does Spotify Smart Shuffle keep playing the same cure song over and over again? |
0:38.8 | Does a quick Google search give you page after page of obvious advertisements want to leave facebook behind but that one group |
0:45.0 | chat just won't let you go well have i got the book for you the internet con how to seize the means |
0:52.0 | of computation it's a little bit history. It's a little bit |
0:55.2 | manifesto. And it's all about one simple concept that can help us get out of this mess. |
1:00.2 | Interoperability. Here with me today to discuss is the book's author, Corey Doctoro. Dr. O is a writer, |
1:06.3 | activist, and journalist. He's motherboard through and through. And I'm so happy to have him back on the show. |
1:12.0 | We're going to pick up the conversation in media res, as they say, with Dr. O telling us about a dual |
1:17.5 | book launch that he just did with Brian Merchant, who, if you'll remember, was on the show last week |
1:22.7 | talking about the Luddites. Dr. O's going to tell us his thoughts on that Luddite missive before |
1:27.3 | getting into his own work. |
1:29.3 | The book is so good. You know, I blurbed it and all, but it's just awesome. |
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