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The Totalitarian Urge (radio edit) - Cory Doctorow


Length: 1:00:37
Uploaded: 23 Jul, 2008

Recording Date: 8 Mar, 2007
Recording Location: SFU
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Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
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Program Title: The Totalitarian Urge (radio edit) - Cory Doctorow
Description: Doctorow's topic is The Totalitarian Urge: total information awareness and the cosmic billiards. “It’s about how technology changes the way we view social problems,� says Doctorow. “Older mechanical technologies make us see the world as deterministic, knowable and manipulable. New emergent technologies like the Internet teach us that control is an illusion, the universe is out of control and laughing at us, and that the more we watch and control, the more problems we have.�

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Featured Speakers/Guests: Cory Doctorow is the award-winning author of science fiction novels such as Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. He is also a committed activist fighting against corporate copyright abuse. He co-edits Boing Boing (boingboing.net), arguably the most popular blog in the world with more than two million unique visitors per day. In January 2007 Doctorow was named one of Forbes Magazine’s 25 “Web Celebrities� and one of the World Economic Forum’s “Young Global Leaders.� Doctorow served as European Affairs Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and currently holds the Canada-US Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center on Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Credits: Edited by Brady Ehler

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Topic:
Arts and Culture
Science and Technology
Society and Culture
Type: Speech/Presentation

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