“I Shouldn’t Have to Publish This in the NYT” Doctorow’s Op-Ed from the Future

Doctorow is an awesome sci-fi writer.

Imagine a world with DRM on Toasters. Doctorow will not just describe such a world, but also will get down to the tiny details. For instance describing at length the corny graphics on a jailbreak package for that toaster.

Few sci-fi writers are as culturally literate in tech and can simultaneously capture the absurdity of it all as well as Doctorow. If you want a good read and a good laugh, check out his books of short stories.

> And the worst part is, the new regulations [for online speech] haven’t ended harassment, extremism or disinformation. Hardly a day goes by without some post full of outright Naziism, flat-eartherism and climate trutherism going viral. There are whole armies of Nazis and conspiracy theorists who do nothing but test the filters, day and night, using custom software to find the adversarial examples that slip past the filters’ machine-learning classifiers.