Cory Doctorow

You can visit that website and find out how to get involved with EFF's causes.

But in your state, you will have local political organizations, mutual aid groups, labor groups, groups that are fighting concentrated corporate power and the corruption that creates the enchatogenic policy environment.

That's where you've got to start.

And I know it's a big lift, but you're going to like it because being part of a group is amazing.

It means that instead of just like watching TikTok on a Saturday, you got a picnic to go to or a thing where you're feeding the hungry people in your neighborhood or just a party down at the union hall.

And so, um,

It sounds like a big lift because we had a lobotomy 40 years ago when we were convinced that we were just individuals and not part of groups, but it feels so good to be part of a group and you'll discover that too.

Well, you know, I was raised by a computer science teacher.

I have an honorary doctorate in computer science.

Uh, I worked as a programmer, uh,

I have a computer tattooed on my right bicep from when I was 18 and I stick my face in my computer every moment I can and I love it and it's like how I made my most important social connections and how I made my most important romantic and familial relations I live very far from my family it's how I stay in touch with them so I'm not anti-technology

So the other thing that I do in my life, and actually the thing I'm arguably better known for than this, is I write science fiction novels.

I'm a multi-best-selling science fiction novelist.

And the thing about science fiction writers is that people think that we're prophets, right?

That we're trying to think of new gadgets and describe what they do.

But there is no such thing as prophecy.

The world is contingent and up for grabs.

What we do matters.

We can change the future.

What science fiction writers do is not predict the future,