Showing posts with label Locus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Locus. Show all posts
Thursday, July 17, 2025

Breaking Encryption

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Cory Doctorow begins his latest LOCUS column with a discussion of technorealism and "nontechnical technothrillers": Rubber-Hose ...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

National Sovereignty and Free Expression

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column explores the tension between the rights of nations to "establish the rule of law" and indi...
Thursday, September 19, 2024

Delayed Gratification

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column deconstructs the "science fictional" idea of "the right’s confidence in the role of i...
Thursday, August 01, 2024

At the Mercy of Internet Services

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Here's a very scary LOCUS column by Cory Doctorow about Google users arbitrarily losing their e-mail accounts and access to all their fi...
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Thursday, May 16, 2024

Why Is the Internet Getting Worse?

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In Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column, he analyzes why everything on the internet is in his view "(suddenly, simultaneously) getti...
Thursday, April 04, 2024

Technofeudalism

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Cory Doctorow advances the position that capitalism isn't evolving into socialism (as classical Marxism predicted) but into a new form o...
Thursday, January 04, 2024

AI as a Bubble

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column analyzes AI as a "tech bubble." What Kind of Bubble Is AI? Although I had a vague idea...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

Bad People Versus Bad Institutions

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In his latest LOCUS essay, Cory Doctorow discusses whether "all the internet services we enjoyed and came to rely upon became suddenly ...
Thursday, September 14, 2023

AI Compositions and Their Influence on Letters as Signals

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In Cory Doctorow's latest column, he brings up a potential unintended byproduct of overusing "large language models," aka chat...
Thursday, July 13, 2023

Predicting versus Contesting

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Few, if any, readers and writers of science fiction believe it exists to predict the future. Strikingly on-target foretellings of future eve...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

When Do Conspiracy Theorists Make Sense?

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Cory Doctorow's column in the May issue of LOCUS discusses what we'd probably think of as paranoid conspiracy theorists, vehemently ...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

One Bite at a Time

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Cory Doctorow's column for the March 2023 issue of LOCUS, for once, asserts a position I can support without reservation: End-to-End ...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

The Fates of Social Networks

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column explores the breakdown of social networking sites, which he seems to believe is the inevitable culmi...
Thursday, November 17, 2022

The Purpose of Horror

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What is horror fiction (whether in print or on film) good for? My parents certainly took a dim view of my fervent interest in the genre, beg...
Thursday, November 10, 2022

Corporate Bullies and Copyright

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Cory Doctorow's article for the November 2022 LOCUS discusses the ever-increasing reach of monopolies that prey on the work of writers a...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

The Meaning of Money

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What gives money (or any "moneylike" form of currency) its value? What makes us willing to accept it in exchange for concrete item...
Thursday, July 14, 2022

The Crisis and the Swerve

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Cory Doctorow's column in this month's LOCUS, whether you fully agree with his view of the global situation or not, displays an impr...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

Writing to the Future

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column, on writing nonfiction pieces that will still be relevant by the time they're published: Six W...
Thursday, March 10, 2022

Big Tech Tyranny?

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Cory Doctorow's March LOCUS column discusses tech tycoons from the perspective of monopoly and world domination. Well, that phrase may b...
Thursday, January 13, 2022

Luddites and SF

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The term "Luddite" is typically applied to people who oppose technological advances. That's basically what I've always ass...