Doctorow disputes pure nostalgia, arguing instead that the question is whether technological systems that gave users control necessarily had to evolve into systems where computers have control over users, or whether there were alternative paths that were foreclosed.

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Cory Doctorow

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I kind of dispute that the only thing an era in which people had lots of control over their computers could have turned into is one in which the computers had lots of control over them. That there is probably something else that we could have done.

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We Didn’t Ask for This Internet | The Ezra Klein ShowThe Ezra Klein Show
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:46:41 PM

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