num_pages: 213
description: Hailed by Bruce Sterling as a political activist gizmo freak junk collector programmer entrepreneur and all-around Renaissance geek Cory Doctorow is the Webs most celebrated high-tech pop-culture maven. Content is the first collection of Doctorows infamous articles essays and polemics.Heres 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 Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy; and of course why free e-books kick ass.Accessible to geeks and noobs (if youre not sure what that means its 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.
language: English
title: Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
publisher: Tachyon Publications