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7 unusual facts about Cory Doctorow


Alice Taylor

In 2008, Taylor's daughter with Cory Doctorow, Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow was born.

Doctorow

Cory Doctorow (born 1971), blogger, activist and science fiction author

Maker culture

Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow has written a novel, Makers, which he describes as being "a book about people who hack hardware, business-models, and living arrangements to discover ways of staying alive and happy even when the economy is falling down the toilet".

Negroponte switch

Cory Doctorow an author and also sometime Electronic Frontier Foundation activist has described the process of the switch as unwiring, which is also a move away from a global internetwork which in reality passes through many chokepoints where data may be controlled and inspected toward one which uses available bandwidth frugally by passing communications in a mesh and avoids chokepoints.

SiSU

Canadian author Cory Doctorow, for instance, has used SiSU as a publishing tool and blogged about it.

Tupperware

In 2012 Cory Doctorow characterized CryptoParties as being "like Tupperware parties for learning crypto," i.e. practical cryptography.

Wireless Nomad

In October 2006, following the fictional narrative in Cory Doctorow's Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, the co-op deployed a large antenna in Toronto's Kensington Market, covering about one quarter of the neighborhood with free WiFi Internet.


Consensus decision-making

Cory Doctorow, Ralph Nader and other proponents of deliberative democracy or judicial-like methods view the explicit dissent as a symbol of strength.

Redstone Science Fiction

Redstone Science Fiction (often called Redstone SF) has published fiction by Cory Doctorow, Mary Robinette Kowal, Ken MacLeod, Cat Rambo, Hannu Rajaniemi, Vylar Kaftan, Lavie Tidhar, and others.


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