Chris Berube

So, Roman, with this in mind, where are you at on the anger scale?

Yeah, like if you own a car, if you own a cell phone, if you own a printer, right?

You kind of had the same problems.

And frankly, the software is making all of these things, if you will pardon my language, shittier for us as consumers.

Because basically with the software, often you cannot fix them unless you go back to the manufacturer.

And I started getting interested in this whole subject because of one of my favorite writers.

Hi, I'm Cory Doctorow.

I'm a novelist, an activist, and a journalist.

So listeners at this show may be aware of Cory's work.

You know, he's a sci-fi writer.

And hey, here is a fun fact about Cory Doctorow.

So anyway, lately, Corey's been out there popularizing this one big idea that he's had.

So it's a word that he coined that seems to be capturing a lot of what's going wrong in modern society right now.

And that word is in shitification.

Roman, have you heard the word in shitification?

Yeah, so that's a part of it.

And there's actually a little bit more to it than that.

So let's just lay this out with an example.

You're on Facebook.

You are part of a Facebook group that likes something very, very niche, right?