Cory Doctorow at CF 25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It

Enshittification swept through the digital world over the past decade, and it has only accelerated since, as everything—grocery stores, nursing agencies, even public schools—migrated to the Cloud and became digital services. The more digital something is, the more vulnerable it is to enshittification—and when your data is in someone else's Cloud, it's that much easier for the cloud provider to turn the screws on you: locking you in, raising prices, tying services.

Check out an awesome interview with Cory Doctorow on the ClouFest Blog : https://www.cloudfest.com/blog/interv...

Enshittification isn't a force of nature. It's not a historic inevitability. It's the eminently foreseeable result of specific policy choices made by named individuals in living memory, after these individuals were warned that enshittification would ensue. Enshittification was a choice, not an accident.

Join author, activist, and journalist Cory Doctorow in this hard-hitting, thought-provoking, and often hilarious CloudFest keynote to explore some important questions: What policy choices can we make? What path can get us to those choices? How do we end the enshittocene and build a new, good internet, whose clouds and endpoints are safe for human habitation?

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