Future scenarios and allocating resources - Cory Doctorow

Post Pandemic

"We are learning what it means to corrupt an institution," Corey Doctorow.

Government allocation, choosing a Pope, network failure, markets and much more manage to condense into this episode.

"The scenario I'd like to work towards is one where we sunset that narrow, beligerant, ideological view of how we do allocation in favour of one that's more centred on realpolitik."

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Links to topics mentioned

• Craphound.com - Cory's website (and where you can get his books)
• Pluralist.net - Cory's daily link blog
• BoingBoing.net
• Thomas Picketty's book 'Capital in the Twenty First Century' [Wikipedia]
• Randomised testing in LA County
• The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio (1353)
• Tuskegee syphilis experiment
• LA Times: California sold its stockpile

ABOUT CORY DOCTOROW (from his website)

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist.

He is the author of RADICALIZED and WALKAWAY, science fiction for adults, a YA graphic novel called IN REAL LIFE, the nonfiction business book INFORMATION DOESN’T WANT TO BE FREE, and young adult novels like HOMELAND, PIRATE CINEMA and LITTLE BROTHER.

His next book is POESY THE MONSTER SLAYER, a picture book for young readers. He maintains a daily blog at Pluralistic.net.

He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University, a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles.

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