These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.
Cory DoctorowStichwörter: singularity facebook
What you’ve got to understand, son,” says the doctor, “is it’s all the fault of the alien space bats.
Cory DoctorowStichwörter: paranoia alien-space-bats
Giant letters march across the dome of the sky: HOME NOT FOUND. Huw, who knows Comic Sans when she sees it, winces in mild disgust.
Cory DoctorowStichwörter: comic-sans
Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.
Cory DoctorowYou’re taking the bus around Burbank?” Lester said. “Christ, Perry, this is Los Angeles. Even homeless people drive cars.
Cory DoctorowStichwörter: humor
For me -- for pretty much every writer -- the big problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity.
Cory DoctorowStichwörter: piracy-obscurity
For me the major turning point in my working life was when I figured out that the work I produced when I felt inspired wasn't any different from the work I produced when I felt uninspired -- at least a few months later. I think that "inspiration" has to do with your own confidence in your ideas, your blood sugar, the external pressures in your life, and a million other factors only tangentially related to the actual quality of the work. If creative work makes you sane and happy (and if it supports you financially), it's terrible to harness it to something you can't control, like "inspiration" -- it sucks to only be happy when something you can't control occurs.
Cory DoctorowStichwörter: inspiration
I hate that," I said. "It's like there's no human beings in the chain of responsibility, just things-that-happen. It's the ultimate cop-out. The system did it. The company did it. The government did it. What about the person who pulls the trigger?
Cory DoctorowThe theory is that if the Internet can't be controlled, then copyright is dead. The thing is, the Internet is a machine for copying things cheaply, quickly, and with as little control as possible, while copyright is the right to control who gets to make copies, so these two abstractions seem destined for a fatal collision, right?
Cory DoctorowI want to just DO SOMETHING instead of ask someone else to start a process to investigate the possibility of someday possibly maybe doing something.
Cory DoctorowStichwörter: inspirational
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