Enzittification with Cory Doctorow & Brian Merchant
Better Offline7 Elo 2024

Enzittification with Cory Doctorow & Brian Merchant

In the third live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron is joined in-studio in Los Angeles by Cory Doctorow and Brian Merchant to talk about the forces that have turned the tech industry away from innovation - and how we might turn the tide against them.

CORY DOCTOROW:

https://pluralistic.net/

https://x.com/doctorow

BRIAN MERCHANT:

Blood In The Machine Book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-merchant/blood-in-the-machine/9780316487740/?lens=little-brown

Newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/

https://x.com/bcmerchant

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https://www.threads.net/@edzitron

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