The internet was about openness, free access to information and open technology in the early two thousands. Now it feels like we're in a very different place with technology now. What has that story been from your point of view? And what sort of future are we moving into? I think there's still labor under which is that the era of current tech revolution coincides with the era of anti-trust enforcement.
The early Internet was open, exciting, and deeply optimistic. So how did we end up, just a few decades later, with one that’s closed, exploitative, and makes most of us incredibly depressed? Longtime Internet gadfly and author of How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, Cory Doctorow, joins Adam to break down how the Internet has changed for the worse, and what we can do about it. Check out his book at https://factuallypod.com/books
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