Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future

By Cory Doctorow

Book Overview

Hailed by Bruce Sterling as a "political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-around Renaissance geek," Cory Doctorow is the Web's most celebrated high-tech pop-culture maven. Content is the first collection of Doctorow's infamous articles, essays, and polemics.

Here's why Microsoft should stop treating its customers as criminals (through relentless digital-rights management); how America chose copyright and Happy Meal toys over jobs; why Facebook is taking a faceplant; how Wikipedia is a poor cousin of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; and, of course, why free e-books kick ass.

Accessible to geeks and noobs (if you're not sure what that means, it's you) alike, Content is a must-have compilation from Cory Doctorow, who will be glad to take you along for the ride as he effortlessly surfs the zeitgeist.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1892391813
• ISBN13: 9781892391810
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Tachyon Publications
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.9"