Cory Doctorow

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Person

Country

US

Active from

1971-07-17

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Cory Doctorow (born July 17, 1971) is a blogger, journalist and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is in favor of liberalizing copyright laws, and a proponent of the Creative Commons organisation, and uses some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, Disney, and post-scarcity economics. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Trotskyist teachers <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Cory+Do

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 7,710x

2. Dissecting the multicellular ecosystem of metastatic melanoma by single-cell RNA-seq

   · 2016 · cited 4,671x

3. GREAT improves functional interpretation of cis-regulatory regions

   · 2010 · cited 4,432x

4. The Bcl-2 Protein Family: Arbiters of Cell Survival

   · 1998 · cited 4,174x

5. An Official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society Statement: Update of the International Multidisciplinary Classification of the Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias

   · 2013 · cited 3,559x

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Quotes

• “I'm not a lawyer— I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM.”
• “It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.”
• “There's something to the idea of the autonomous character. Big chunks of our wetware are devoted to simulating other people, trying to figure out if we are likely to fight or fondle them. It's unsurprising that when you ask your brain to model some other person, it rises to the task. But that's exactly what happens to a reader when you hand your book over to him: he simulates your characters in his head, trying to interpret that character's actions through his own lens.”
• “Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.”
• “Open platforms and experimental amateurs … eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. … Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether.”
• “A tablet without software is just an inconveniently fragile and poorly reflective mirror, so the thing I want to be sure of when I buy a device is that I don't have to implicitly trust one corporation's judgment about what software I should and shouldn't be using.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1971-07-17 ) 17 July 1971 (age 54) , Toronto, Ontario , Canada

Occupation

Author, blogger

Nationality

Canadian, British, American

Genre

Science fiction , postcyberpunk

Notable works

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom ; Little Brother

Notable awards

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer John W. Campbell Memorial Award Prometheus Award Sunburst Award

Spouse

Alice Taylor ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. October 2008</span>"}]]}'>2008 ) ​

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Key dates

Born

17 July 1971

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Toronto

Occupation

producer

Employer

University of Waterloo

Political party

Democratic Socialists of America

Languages spoken

English language

Religion

atheism

Award

honorary doctorate

Notable work

enshittification

Genre

science fiction

Official website

pluralistic.net

Image

Cory Doctorow by Gage Skidmore.jpg

Residence

London

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