Join us on the next Copper Robot program for a conversation with science fiction writer, blogger and Internet activist Cory Doctorow, whose latest novel, Makers, tells the story of hackers trying to survive and stay happy in a collapsing economy.
WHEN: Wednesday, Dec. 16, 8 am Pacific time SPECIAL DAY AND TIME
WHERE: The lovely Seaside Theater, World2Worlds Island in Second Life, watch the live video on the Web, or listen to the playback later on this Web site.
Cory blogs at Boing Boing, contributes to the UK paper The Guardian and other outlets, and is an outspoken advocate for Internet rights and sensible intellectual property policy. We’ll talk to Cory about those things and more.
He worked as Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit civil liberties group. He’s the winner of the Locus and Sunburst Awards for his science fiction, and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and British Science Fiction Awards. His previous novel, Little Brother, was published in May 2008 and hit the New York Times bestseller list. Other books include Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Eastern Standard Tribe, and Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.
He co-founded an open source peer-to-peer software company, OpenCola, sold to OpenText in 2003. In 2007, Entertainment Weekly called him “the William Gibson of his generation.” He was also named one of Forbes Magazine’s 2007/8 Web Celebrities, and one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders for 2007.
His next two books, coming soon, are With a Little Help, a short-story collection published as an experiment in business models for on-demand publishing, and, in the spring, For the Win, a young adult novel about macroeconomics, video games and the labor movement.
Cory became a father in February 2008; he says, “the little girl is called Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow, and is a marvel that puts all the works of technology and artifice to shame.”
Photo by Joi Ito, licensed CC-BY
