Best non-fiction book of 2024: The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation by Cory Doctorow“Winning tech back isn’t more important than preventing runaway climate change or ending gender-based violence and discrimination, but it’s hard to imagine how we’ll do either - or anything else of significance - without digital infrastructure to hold us together.” This is Cory Doctorow at his finest and punchiest. He makes the case that the Big Tech companies of today got so big through their control of digital infrastructure and closed protocols and software ecosystems. But more importantly, this is a manual for how we can take back this power by lowering switching costs and allowing adversarial interoperability. Honestly, I believe this should be mandatory reading for anyone who uses the internet.
Previous winners: From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want by Rob Hopkins (2022) and Unmasking Autism by Devon Price (2023).
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