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How much of his writing on the emerging digital economy and the crappy, planned-obsolescence products that folks are still lining up to buy? Fake flying cars and flimsy folding smartphones may just be desperate attempts to keep investors happy with the company’s growth. Hopefully Doctorow realizes the diminishing returns on his tagline “who it does it to and who it does it for” (passim) as a not-so witty maxim.
— Oct 23, 2026 11:52PM
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Two sides to every story may be a cautious, trite observation about all AI matters, but at least Doctorow writes with some authority as both a sci fi novelist and tech journalist, pointing out how both sides are still bad news. Artists have little recourse, it seems, to protect their creations from being plagiarized by bots, yet even copyright laws, he asserts, should allow AI scanning and calculating for its models.
— Nov 12, 2026 10:36AM