Doctorow, Cory.

Content : selected essays on technology, creativity, copyright, and the future of the future / Selected essays on technology, creativity, copyright, and the future of the future Essays on technology, creativity, copyright, and the future of the future Cory Doctorow. - 1st ed. - San Francisco : Tachyon Publications, 2008. - xxii, 213 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Foreword for Content / John Perry Barlow -- Microsoft research DRM talk -- The DRM sausage factory -- Happy Meal toys versus copyright : how American chose Hollywood and Wal-Mart, and why it's doom us, and how we might survive anyway -- Why is Hollywood making a sequel to the Napster wars? -- You DO like reading off a computer screen -- How do you protect artists? -- It's the information economy, stupid -- Downloads give Amazon jungle fever -- What's the most important right creators have? -- Giving it away -- Science fiction is the only literature people care enough about to steal on the Internet -- How copyright broke -- In praise of fanfic -- Metacrap putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia -- Amish for QWERTY -- Ebooks : neither E, nor books -- Free(konomic) ebooks -- The progressive apocalypse and other futurismic delights -- When the singularity is more than a literary device : an interview with futurist-inventor Ray Kurzweil -- Wikipedia : a genuine HG2G, minus the editors -- Warhol is turning in his grave -- The future of ignoring things -- Facebook's faceplant -- The future of Internet immune systems-- All complex ecosystems have parasites -- READ CAREFULLY -- World of democracycraft -- Snitchtown.

A collection of previously published articles and essays.

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Technology--Social aspects.
Technologie--Aspect social.
Internet--Aspect social.
Droit d'auteur.
Livres �electroniques.
Cr�eativit�e.

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