Fantastic talk and a terrific write-up. Whether or not you agree with Doctorow's proposed solutions, I think his analysis of the problem and how we got here is

Fantastic talk and a terrific write-up. Whether or not you agree with Doctorow's proposed solutions, I think his analysis of the problem and how we got here is pretty compelling. If you want to watch the talk (linked to from TFA): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydVmzg_SJLw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydVmzg_SJLw I you want to go even deeper, I also highly recommend his book, "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation"