Big Tech's Big Heist - Cory Doctorow in Conversation with Adam Becker

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• The discussion challenges the “gospel of technological salvation,” arguing that digital platforms like social media, Amazon, and Google have devolved from initial promises into “poorer-quality service and user experience.”
• Cory Doctorow’s concept of “enshittification” is central to understanding this decline in quality across digital services, a critique extended to the current hype surrounding AI.
• The conversation urges critical scrutiny of the rhetoric around new technologies, questioning “what is real and what is rhetoric, and who benefits from all the hype and fanfare” in Silicon Valley’s promises.