Cory Doctorow
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525 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So I think broadly that the world is best when workers decide how they're going to use their tools.
And I have met people who use their writing tools in ways that I think makes them a worse writer.
And I've taught students lots of different ways to write.
I once co-taught a workshop with Linda Barry.
She taught the week before me, you know, the cartoonist.
Yes.
But it was for prose writers, and she taught them how to write by drawing, a thing I never have imagined of doing.
And it made them really good writers.
Teaching them the next week was a delight.
Oh, I believe you.
Cross-training, it's awesome.
Just like every other technique, there are going to be artists who use this stuff in ways that I think is going to make them worse.
There's going to be artists who use it in ways that I think make them better.
It's going to be as distinctive as a creative process of every artist.
I think that AI-generated prose sucks, but I'm also willing to believe that in 10 years, I'll look back at some work of AI-generated prose and go, oh, that's pretty interesting, because the writer will have figured out a way to generate it, probably one that's as labor-intensive as anything else we do, that is producing something new.
People are gonna have to invent new ways of using it, but that's always been the case.
And you know, like, one of the things I collect are gazetteers, so collections of Punch magazine.
Yeah, the little items at the beginning.
One of my favorites is, an American gentleman has invented a typewriting machine that will allow you to record your thoughts faster than you can think them.
No longer will we have to endure the indignity of bad tavern nibs.
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