Cory Doctorow Quotes about Technology

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This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

Technology, Giving, Privacy

Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.88, Macmillan

I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that they can't wiretap. I figured out how to jam their person-tracking technology. I can turn innocent people into suspects and turn guilty people into innocents in their eyes. I could get metal onto an airplane or beat a no-fly list. I figured this stuff out by looking at the web and by thinking about it. If I can do it, terrorists can do it. They told us they took away our freedom to make us safe. Do you feel safe?

Cory Doctorow

Airplane, Eye, Technology

Open platforms and experimental amateurs eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether.

Cory Doctorow

Technology, Trying, Stuff

"Why I Won't Buy an iPad (And Think You Shouldn't, Either)". boingboing.net. April 02, 2010.