Cory Doctorow

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2,714 appearances 9 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 2d ago

Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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which again is how to turn like $10 million of real estate into $25 cash.

Yeah.

And this is not new.

I mean, if you imagine when cars first appeared, roads were not for cars, right?

Roads were for people and cyclists and horses and carts and everything shared the road and a kind of glorious higgledy piggledy.

And then the car came along and it was just like monumentally unsuited to sharing the road with other vehicles.

I think you've no doubtless notice whether you are, um,

driving a car or walking near cars, we understand that cars just don't play well with others.

And so they invented the term pedestrian, right?

And also the term jaywalker to describe this kind of eternal verity that people shouldn't be in the streets, that the streets are for cars.

And they basically like retconned the idea that the streets were always there waiting for the cars to come along.

And now that the cars are here, the

Because, you know, you've enjoyed your free ride while the cars were being built.

But now the cars are here.

It's time to clear out.

And there's a very famous AI booster who talks about the pogo stick problem.

And he says, well, we can probably build an AV, an autonomous vehicle that can deal with pedestrians who are well behaved.

But if you ride a pogo stick into traffic, it's unreasonable to think of an AV that's capable of managing it.

And, you know, it sounds superficially reasonable.

But the rhetorical move here is to say, once again, like...

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