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A review by andopmck
Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present by Cory Doctorow
3.0
What it comes down to is that I really like what Cory Doctorow has to say about copyright laws, monopolies, information privacy, etc. It’s a breath of fresh air to have someone explain what’s going on in the world in understandable terms. His fiction by extension tackles these topics as well.
My one critique, if I have one, is that all of Doctorow’s 3D printing hacktivist protagonists are a bit one note in the same way that Asimov’s golden era “Men of Science” are. They only exist as a transmission device for the author’s personal ideologies. But for Doctorow’s case I find the questions he poses to be timely, interesting, and a needed perspective on the current state of technology and its ramifications.
My one critique, if I have one, is that all of Doctorow’s 3D printing hacktivist protagonists are a bit one note in the same way that Asimov’s golden era “Men of Science” are. They only exist as a transmission device for the author’s personal ideologies. But for Doctorow’s case I find the questions he poses to be timely, interesting, and a needed perspective on the current state of technology and its ramifications.