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Cory Doctorow has been irrelevant for 15 years. There is a good case to be made for people not reading any more, and a concern of amazon owning the listening ti
by scrame 6y ago
Cory Doctorow has been irrelevant for 15 years. There is a good case to be made for people not reading any more, and a concern of amazon owning the listening time of people like they own the delivery and server space, but a marketing gimmick from the former editor of boingboing.com aint gonna turn the tide.
- pmoriarty 6y agoIrrelevant for whom exactly? He's relevant enough to make HN's front page. I've also been following his blog (and the Boing Boing website) for years (and the Boing Boing paper zine before that). I've never read his fiction, but his writing on technology, privacy and surveillance capitalism is eloquent, interesting, and insightful and has always been worth my time.
- m463 6y agoI think science fiction authors never become irrelevant. They tend to grow in popularity like new technologies - overestimated in the short term, underestimated in the long term.