So we're graced with their presence. Cory Doctorow, author of "Walkaway," so Cory is a science fiction author, activist, journalist, and blogger.He's the co-editor of Boing Boing, that's boingboing.net, and the author of the best-selling "Little Brother," which is actually just recently optioned by Paramount,
It's a marvel to behold. Cory suggested it. I agree with it-- that one question comes from someone who identifies as female.
And our goal was initially to try to go up the west ridge, go over the mountain, and then come back down-- two of us, Cory Richards and I-- and then the rest of the team to the standard route, and then also to build a scienceand educational component into it.
that no one understands, really. Cory Doctorow is all about the farm to table smart phones.Yeah. Right. That's pretty much his schtick, actually.
It favors two or three on top and nobody else. Cory Doctorow writes about the coming battles having to do with 3D printing.
Right? For the first time. Cory Doctorow: Presenter: Yeah.And then Zelig-like, I noticed as he rose as an author.
about his latest book, "Makers", and some other issues that are on his mind. Cory ? Cory Doctorow >> Thanks. So I thought I would start by - oh and thank you all for coming.I thought I would start a little by reading something from "Makers" which is the book that's just out from Harper Collins here in the UK and touring the US and available for
actually the, you know, minority. Cory Doctorow >> Yeah. I was really lucky in that my editor who bought my first novel, Patrick Nielsen Hayden at Tor Books in New York, who runs the largest science fictionline in the world and is the most senior editor there. I've known him since I was 17. I met him on a BBS. He maintains his own Linux boxes, he writes his own movable type plugins and
and TV or TV shows online. Is your opinion a little bit differentiated? Cory Doctorow >> Well, I actually say arguably that music is better online than it is in CD, at least if you live in London, right? Every centimeter I give over to a CD is acentimeter I can't give over to my daughter, you know? In my tiny London flat so yeah I mean, we took all the DVD's out of the sitting room and ripped them and all of the sudden
said you know, yes, there may be a business opportunity for the kind of people who sound good on a record but some of us aren't recording artists, we're performers, right? You lose Cory Doctorow >> I think Spotify is a great thing as far as it goes, although I think that you know streaming is the flawgicine of the 21st century. There is no such thing
said you know, yes, there may be a business opportunity for the kind of people who sound good on a record but some of us aren't recording artists, we're performers, right? You lose Cory Doctorow >> It kind of depends on what you mean by the movie rights. So the Noncommercial Creative Commons Movie Right, the CCNCSA, are given away. Anyone can make a movie. There
And so let's take a look there at who are the top candidates who are getting the most positive media sentiment. Number one is Cory Booker. Number two, Pete Buttigieg.
I said, well, give me an example of this. So it's actually Cory 's example. But he was telling me in our early days in Zambia, where 80% plus of girls don't make it past grade six, we had all these girls
It's sometimes down to 8 or 9 or 10 to 1. We just elected Cory Booker to the US Senate from New Jersey in a 20% turnout election.
It's literally over sand dunes, isn't it? The children are-- Cory 's fine, thank you.
head and saws off the top of her skull. Over to Cory . So as you've just heard, Huw is forcibly transcended.
Presenter: I first met Cory Doctorow in 1986 when he was working for Metallica and trying to anticipate the coming Napster wars. People don't know this about him, but he is a fervent defender of the RIAA and the MPAA.
But the thought was that the only way to get the money was to control it and the only way to control it was through copyright. Bill: Or and Cory Doctorow does his books, too.
really for us is he gonna speak for black people the Barack Obama deval Patrick answer Cory Booker answer is we're gonna speak for everybody and see if that doesn't disproportionately affect black people so say black people suffer disproportionately from disparities in health care disparities
None of us knew when he was talking about. I shook my head and whispered to one of the journalists, "What is he referring to?" these illness for Cory because she hated me. Cory understands that his mother wants him to be sick and doesn't really like him on some deep, conflicted level.
He has amassed over 20 albums as a leader while collaborating on a dozen of others, including with the godfather of fusion, the earlier-mentioned Larry Coryell, and Barry Miles, who's tape recording launched Al's career in subsequent collaboration with Corea. He has been selected 11 times as winner in best jazz guitarist by the Guitar Player Magazine reader poll.
Today I am proud to present accordionist Cory Pesaturo and even prouder to say that I know him personally.
I like watching you talk. Because the funny thing about Cory is, you're like, Cory , here's a thought. And he goes, so, thwoomp.
oh was on Dancing with KY Cory decided he should do a spin with
Synagogue. Cory Booker's essay is great.
It's probably some 18-year-old named Cory who's just like, who the hell is this kid?
Doctorow. Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist, and blogger, co-editor of Boing Boing and author of many books, including the nonfiction
I introduce to you, Cory Doctorow.
And let's put our hands together for them to welcome them. Hello, Cory . Hello, John. It's nice to see you again.
It's a marvel to behold. Yeah, Cory , so I think you've got it wrong about free and open source software.
And it was also dedicating the auditorium to Cory Monteith's character, which was very moving and very, very sad.
All of them, apparently. I think the longest chunk I mailed to Cory at one point was about 2,500 words, at a time when you were
I don't see how you can possibly say that with any sort of honesty." Then I realized who I was talking to, of course. Realistically, I met Cory when he was doing sugar water. Right? For the first time.
You know, Carr quotes Cory Doctorow, right? When Nick Carr and Cory Doctorow agree about something, it can fairly, safely be said to have passed into, into the realm of received
We have a mic in the back too. Who has questions? Thanks Cory . Because you give your books away online for free and you still have a print business, do you have to butt heads with your publishers in every country every time you do this or are they just now know it's you and they're okay with it? You're
It's a marvel to behold. And why do we do that, Cory ?
Basically, I went down there with Cory , we had never met each other.
It's sometimes down to 8 or 9 or 10 to 1. Well, roughly half of them voted for Cory Booker.
said you know, yes, there may be a business opportunity for the kind of people who sound good on a record but some of us aren't recording artists, we're performers, right? You lose with me, I am the first Cory in Google. Thanks.
And here's an interesting bit. He also co-created the concept of the touring trio of equals after replacing Larry Coryell in the acoustic guitar group The Guitar Trio and bring the concept to widespread attention.
you know, I just I just read um this new book coming out by Cory Doctorow, the activist writer or science
And we run the gamut from Nancy Pelosi to Elaine Chao, from Cory Booker to Tim Scott.
thought based on the data? Yeah. I once asked that question to Dr. Cory Heyman, who at the time was our director of programs-- one of the most brilliant people I know.
Born in Toronto, Canada, Cory now lives in Los Angeles-- Burbank, to be specific.
Sure. So like I blurbed-- that's another good one-- Cory Doctorow's book, which is now called "Walkaway." When I blurbed it, it was called, "Utopia."
Thanks, everyone, for joining us for this Talks at Google event. We have two fantastic authors here for you today, Cory Doctorow and John Scalzi. So we're graced with their presence.
do for the cast? Uh, so Cory Copat and my twin's name is Tantmile. We um are,
I actually don't want to spend much time introducing him. So I won't. Everyone, please welcome Cory Doctorow. Doctorow: Hi folks. I give-- I write science fiction novels and stories.
Okay everyone, thanks very much for coming and it's my good pleasure to introduce Cory Doctorow and Cory is a very prolific member of the Internet community as I know, I could describe it that way. He's probably known to most people in this room and someone that I would like to see more of at Google here today but he's going to speak a little bit
So it's available for free online, as with all my books, Creative Commons License, Craphound.com. I'm easy to find, I'm the first Cory in Google so relatively straightforward to find if you'd like to read some more, you can always buy the book and it's a book about economic collapse and rebirth so I wrote it as a parable about the dot com years which I lived through in San Francisco which I found really kind of inspiring and also grim. I moved there at