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38 Can Cory Doctorow's 'Enshittification' Transform the Tech Industry Debate?

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BeauHD @ Slashdot 2 place · 10/07/2025 23:30 EDT

Can Cory Doctorow's 'Enshittification' Transform the Tech Industry Debate?

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Over the course of a nearly four-decade career, Cory Doctorow has written 15 novels, four graphic novels, dozens of short stories, six nonfiction books, approximately 60,000 blog posts and thousands of essays. And yet for all the millions of words he's published, these days the award-winning science fiction author and veteran internet activist is best known for just a single one: Enshittification. The term, which Doctorow, 54, popularized in essay

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