Context
Further Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity,Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century

Name: Context
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Cory Doctorow
ISBN: 9781504601689

Author: Cory Doctorow

Narrator: Richard Powers

Unabridged: 6 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 06/02/2015

Categories: Nonfiction, Technology & Engineering, Social Aspects, Literary Collections, Social Science

Synopsis

One of the web's most celebrated high-tech culture mavens returns with this second collection of essays and polemics. Discussing complex topics in an accessible manner, Cory Doctorow's visions of a future where artists have full freedom of expression is tempered with his understanding that creators need to benefit from their own creations. From extolling the Etsy makerverse to excoriating Apple for dumbing down technology while creating an information monopoly, each unique piece is brief, witty, and at the cutting edge of tech. Now a stay-at-home dad as well as an international activist, Doctorow writes as eloquently about creating real-time Internet theater with his daughter as he does while lambasting the corporations that want to profit from inherent intellectual freedoms.

About Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow is an award-winning science fiction short-story writer with more than 15 published stories. He was a winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

About Richard Powers

Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory, and Bewilderment was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jay on September 14, 2014

Funny story about checking this book out from the library: they almost didn't give it to me. I had a small pile of books to check out, plus maybe 20 books already on my card from previous visits, but the computer insisted that I was beyond my limit of books. The librarian kept scanning the book, but......more

Goodreads review by Konlin on January 15, 2015

Zbiór esejów który na początku wydawał się ciekawy ale wraz z mijajacymi stronami coraz bardziej drażnił. Powodów jest kilka i niestety większość wynika z tłumaczenia i redakcji. Wymieniając najważniejsze, w losowej kolejności: 1. Brak informacji o dacie publikacji wersji oryginalnej. Fajnie byłoby w......more

Goodreads review by Greg on August 29, 2017

If you like to think, and not just read - this book is for you. If you're looking to learn, this _may be_ the book for you; but without at least *some* critical thinking skills, I wouldn't go for it. Cory Doctorow is deeply embedded in the tech activism circles of the late 80s and earl 90s. I'm talki......more

Goodreads review by David on December 26, 2018

Drinking from the Information Fire Hose? Stop & Sip Doctorow's "Context" Doctorow's "Context" is a collection of learned love notes to technology and the creativity it fires. Most readers will walk away saying the copyright essays are the most interesting, but if you happen to be a new dad like me, i......more

Goodreads review by Lila on August 29, 2019

I love this book! As a programmer/writer, this book covers all the issues I've ever thought about. Right from how kids interact with technology to writing productivity tips to what happens to my data after I die to if I should make my writing available for free to what's a good copyright system, Cor......more

Quotes

“Cory Doctorow’s Context is a treat for those who live in the digital world—as well as for those who would like to know more about it.” New York Journal of Books

“If you are interested in the context of our Internet-centric lives, Context is a must-read collection of essays.” San Francisco Book Review

“Context is a deeply interesting and thought-provoking book…The resulting collection is golden: and an absolute must-read for anyone who’s ever asked where all of this technology stuff is heading.” January Magazine

“Cory Doctorow is the apotheosis of what we talk about when we talk about the Web.” SF Site

“There is plenty here to chew over here and will make you think.” SF Crowsnest

“Doctorow makes the complicated accessible throughout this great little guidebook, a GPS for the digital age.” Publishers Weekly

“A good introduction to Doctorow, the volume collects his most recent work and will be of interest to a wide audience: anyone who teaches, reads sf, follows tech news, or wonders why one can’t read the same books on a Kindle as on a Nook.” Library Journal

“Part Poor Benjamin, part Dr. Spock, Doctorow is by now a wise, trusted guide in this messy—but eminently navigable!—world in which we’ve landed.” Booklist