Moral Panic
This week’s episode is as interesting and multi-disciplinary as its guest – Cory Doctorow – himself. Political activist, blogger, journalist, computer scientist and writer joins professor Nutt in conversation about Big data and Big problems of today’s world.
Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British citizen of Eastern European Jewish descent and, frankly, it is no less difficult to grasp his vast interests and points of expertise than his family roots. After attending four universities without obtaining a degree, Cory’s career started with co-founding free software P2P company called OpenCola and selling it to the Open Text Corporation after four years. Later Doctorow relocated to London and worked as European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation helping to establish the Open Rights Group, before leaving the EFF to pursue both fiction and non-fiction writing full-time.
He is also an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics.
Academically, he was named the 2006–2007 Canadian Fulbright Chair for Public Diplomacy at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, and in 2009, Doctorow became the first Independent Studies Scholar in Virtual Residence at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. Doctorow is also a Visiting Professor at the Open University in the United Kingdom. In 2012 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from The Open University.
If you want to find out how data surveillance, AI, and monopolization can be connected to drug policy, be sure to tune in to this episode!
Blog: www.pluralistic.net
Books: www.craphound.com/shop
Podcast: www.craphound.com/podcast
Medium: https://doctorow.medium.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/doctorow