Blogger, author, and activist Cory Doctorow is the most provocative, original, and widely admired thinker on the politics of Big Tech in the world today.

Whether anticipating the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in his short story Radicalised, helping the world to wake up to the grift of the social media giants through his concept of ‘Enshittification’ – the practice of eroding the quality of a platform to turn the user into a product, or imagining a genuinely better world to replace the dystopia of our present in novels like The Lost Cause and Walkaway, Cory Doctorow is equally accomplished as an award-winning storyteller and as an analyst of our present and near future.

Celebrating Picks and Shovels, his new novel of Silicon Valley grift, and revealing his deep insights into the relationship between technology and power in 2025, this an unmissable conversation for anyone concerned with the world in our time and what we can do about it.

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