Cory Doctorow
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2,714 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
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Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Right.
And so then you have this argument in public.
Right.
The upside to it is like everyone knows how much Facebook is worth because the balance sheet is just a matter of public record.
By contrast, if you just make stuff up and say we're going to conquer this market that doesn't exist.
Sure.
No one knows how much it's worth.
But like who's to contradict you when you say it's worth infinity?
And so we've had this series of bubbles.
Right.
We had cryptocurrency, Web3, Metaverse, and so on and so on.
And in the manner of a man running across a river on the backs of alligators and not losing a leg, every time one of these narratives started to get a little washed and stale, there was a new one.
And AI is the latest.
And AI is different, partly because I think there's more to it.
I think from a computer science perspective, it's very interesting, but also because it's so much bigger.
$61 billion set on fire to build the metaverse, $1.4 trillion so far in AI, and $700 billion of it in the last year alone, from a sector that makes $50 billion worldwide gross.
So that's the connection, right?
Monopolies who saturate their markets start to do very weird things.
Right.
It's very Tinkerbell coded.
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