Why Does It Feel Like Everything is Getting Worse? With Cory Doctorow
How can we reverse the enshittification of digital platforms? With Cory Doctorow Why does every online platform seem to start out great - then slowly turn to garbage? Why do our digital public squares now feel more like corporate malls... or burning trash heaps? ‘Enshittification’ has been word of the year in the UK, USA and Australia. It's been printed in the pages of the FT and declaimed from podiums at the EU. As a word, it captures the feeling of a world that is ever worsening. Cory Doctorow, the tech and ethics writer who coined the term, argues that enshittification is not a technical…
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