What Cory Doctorow thinks about design

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Science fiction novelist, journalist and activist, a special adviser to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the author of the daily link blog Pluralistic. He coined the word "enshittification" in 2022 to name the way platforms decay, and it was the American Dialect Society's word of the year for 2023.

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2 dated positions, 2023, in their own words. Our reading of what Cory Doctorow has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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19 Feb 2023

Our readingTechnology bosses are ordinary monopolists rather than evil geniuses, and crediting them with having hacked our dopamine loops flatters them.

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Their wordstech barons are ordinary mediocrities, no better and no worse than the monopolists that preceded them, and any differences come down to affordances in technology and regulation, not an especial wicked brilliance.

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21 Jan 2023

Our readingThe end-to-end principle -- that a willing speaker's message reaches the willing listeners who asked for it -- is dead at the service level of today's internet.

Their wordsThe end-to-end principle is dead at the service level today.

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