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CYBER

Hedging Bets on the Future With Author Cory Doctorow

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This week we have a very special guest on the show: All-star sci-fi writer Cory Doctorow, a fellow Canadian, and someone who has written about the dystopian near future with stunning accuracy.


His latest novel, Attack Surface, tells the tale of a counterterrorism agent and the terrifying power of the surveillance state.


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0:00.0

Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.

0:10.7

It's a unit system.

0:13.1

I know this.

0:15.1

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.3

It tells her everything.

0:19.1

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.6

Eagle One, the package is being delivered.

0:24.6

This week we have a very special guest on the show.

0:28.6

All-star sci-fi writer Cory Doctoro, a fellow Canadian, and someone who has written about the dystopic near future with stunning accuracy.

0:36.6

His latest novel, Attack Surface,

0:39.3

tells the tale of a counterterrorism agent

0:41.2

and the terrifying power of the surveillance state.

0:44.7

I'm Ben Maku, and this is cyber.

0:53.9

Corey, thank you for coming on the show.

0:55.6

Friend of the show.

0:56.5

Thank you very much.

0:57.3

I like to think of myself as a friend of the show.

0:59.2

I listen every week.

1:02.0

Well, we're happy to have you on.

1:03.7

And, you know, I was just saying to you, you're a writer who focuses on the future.

1:09.8

Are you running out of things to write about? Because things just

1:13.1

continuously get more and more fucked up every single week. Well, you know, people who claim to know

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