Cory Doctorow

Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future Cory Doctorow

Hailed by Bruce Sterling as a “political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-around Renaissance geek,? Cory Doctorow is the Web?s most celebrated high-tech pop-culture maven. Content is the first collection of Doctorow?s infamous articles, essays, and polemics.

Here?s 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 Hitchhiker?s Guide to the Galaxy; and, of course, why free e-books kick ass.

Accessible to geeks and noobs (if you?re not sure what that means, it?s 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.