“Enshittification” is one of those rare new words that so perfectly sums up a prevailing but innominate concept that it feels like it has existed forever, like “shrinkflation” or “greenwash” before it ...
Those of us old enough to remember BBS servers or even rainbow banners often go down the nostalgia hole about how the internet was better “back in the day” than it is now as a handful of middlemen ...
The writer who coined the word ‘enshittification’ tells us why AI will never deliver what it promises – and why it still appeals so much to those in power ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once you wrap your head around the idea, you start to see "enshittification" all around — not only online, but across the economy.
Cory Doctorow, author of “Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It,” makes a point at a presentation at the Seattle Central Library while moderator Whitney Beltrán ...
When writer Cory Doctorow introduced the term enshittification in 2023, he captured a pattern many users had already noticed in their personal lives. The social media platforms, e-commerce sites and ...
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Cory Doctorow argues that the best way to reclaim our digital sovereignty is to jailbreak Canada. Cory Doctorow is an award-winning Canadian science-fiction author, journalist, and tech activist. He ...
On this episode of Fighting Fascism, the man who named enshittification breaks down why AI is the biggest financial scam in history—and how to actually resist it. Jonathan Smucker, Aaron Regunberg, ...
A vivid and entertaining polemnic on the economics of the tech revolution, filled with righteous ire ...