CORY DOCTOROW is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. He is the author of many books. He writes nonfiction policy books such as The Internet Con and Chokepoint Capitalism, as well as science fiction for adults - Red Team Blues and The Lost Cause - and for young adults - Little Brother. He has been inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and has been honored with the Arthur C. Clarke Imagination in Service to Society Award and the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. He was made an honorary Doctor of Laws by York University and an Honorary Doctor of Computer Science by the Open University. For a quarter century, he has been an activist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He co-founded the UK Open Rights Group and holds visiting appointments at the Open University, MIT, Cornell, and the University of North Carolina. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Burbank, California.

A vivid and entertaining polemic on the economics of the tech revolution, filled with righteous ire.

• Introduction BEFOREHow We Got Here Against Inevitabilism Really Weird Math BUBBLEThe Funny Math Gets Dangerous AI "Art" AI Has a Labor Issue (Not a Copyright Issue) What Should Creative Workers Do About AI? Actual, Existing AI Absent Indians and Gujarati People Typing Agentic AI and Other AbsurditiesAFTERBubbles and Productive Residues AI After the Bubble