Cory Doctorow's Lecture in the Hungarian and International Media

January 20, 2015

Several media outlets covered Cory Doctorow's lecture "I Can't Let You Do That Dave: The Dystopian war On General Purpose Computers and What You Can Do About It" held on 15 January and / or interviewed the science fiction writer and activist.

Teleread's Paul St John Mackintosh interviewed Cory Doctorow before his talk and he shared a slew of observations on a great many issues, many of which Mackintosh will be presenting in subsequent articles. To begin with, though, here are his thoughts on where self-publishing has got to, and what the whole Amazon-Hachette spat reveals about the impact of DRM on the market: http://www.teleread.com/publishing/cory-doctorow-speaks-self-publishing-... 

The Hungarian newssite, Index's bookblog, Könyves.blog.hu asked Doctorow about his upcoming book, his views on dystopian YA fiction and on the future of bookshops.

The  interview can be read at: 

http://konyves.blog.hu/2015/01/17/cory_doctorow_a_science_fiction_nem_jo... 

The Hungarian daily, Népszabadság reflected on Doctorow's ideas about our computers spying on us and the dangers we've put ourselves into by the intelligence of these machines. Their article also commented on Doctorow's novel, Little Brother and Homeland. http://nol.hu/tud-tech/szuperkem-a-zsebben-1510573

The Hungarian newssite, Origo also covered Doctorow's talk in their broader piece on the influence machines have over humans and on surveillance laws and attitudes in global politics. Their piece is available at: http://www.origo.hu/techbazis/20150119-ertunk-vagy-ellenunk-hova-tart-a-...  

The Hungarian daily, Magyar Nemzet also covered Doctorow's talk in the edition of 21 January, in their article entitled "Science-fiction is about the fears of the present". 

Besides, the Hungarian weekly, HVG also published an article on Doctorow's talk in its HVG Business special edition, entitled "Soberly into the Present" (Józanul a jelenbe). 

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