The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
creator(s): Cory Doctorow |
medium(s): book |
date reviewed: 28 August 2025
rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤
This is good! It’s another book that I took too long to read, so it’s hard to review when I took breaks for other books between sections.
It’s a very Doctorow book. I mean this in three ways: First, it makes an impassioned plea for a niche-but-important tech cause. Second, it overlaps with his fiction writing in really obvious ways. Third, it reads like an extended blog post (which I mostly mean as a compliment).
I have Enshittification on preorder, and this felt like a solid warmup. Looking forward to reading that!
- The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
- Cory Doctorow
- enshittification
- interoperability
- competitive competition
- adversarial interoperability
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