Producer Picks: Cory Doctorow on Big Tech

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Aug 26, 2021

[REBROADCAST FROM September 16, 2020] Big Tech is watching us, plugging our behaviors into hidden algorithms and then serving up a digital experience customized just for us. It's a little... creepy. But it's more than that, according to blogger, journalist, and science fiction author Cory Doctorow, who's latest book is, Attack Surface. He joins us for a deep dive into the many problems of Big Tech, and how to fix them.

 

This segment was picked by our Producer Zach Gottehrer-Cohen.

 

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