
How to Unsh*ttify Canada, with Cory Doctorow
Is Trump’s crazy train an existential threat to Canada or an existential opportunity?
Cory Doctorow gave the world the concept of “ensh*ttification”. Doctorow’s doctrine says there is a gradual but inevitable process by which tech platforms go from marvelous and novel and exciting to, well, they go to sh*t. They get less useful and more spammy. Your Netflix library gets smaller while your monthly fee gets bigger. It gets harder to find the Google link you were looking for underneath all the sponsored links. Uber rates seem to always be set to surge pricing.
The idea can be applied to Canada…
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