Cory Doctorow - Online Platform Decay

Cory Doctorow discusses the 3-stages of online platform decay, characterized by declining quality for users, advertisers & publishers, and applies those principles to the "Big 5" tech companies: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft. Cory has written, "Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die." Cory Doctorow is a well-known science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger, currently engaged in writing atboth Pluralistic.net and Craphound.com. Among his many accomplishments, Cory is the author of numerous fiction and non-fiction novels, former co-editor of Boing Boing, former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University, a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science, and co-founder of the UK Open Rights Group. Cory is the winner of numerous awards and honors, including the John. W. Campbell, Locus, Sunburst, White Pine, Prometheus, and Inkpot awards for his writing and the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, in 2022, he earned the Sir Arthur Clarke Imagination in Service to Society Awardee for lifetime achievement. Additionally, York University has made him an Honourary Doctor of Laws; and the Open University made him an Honourary Doctor of Computer Science. LINKS & RESOURCES: Cory Doctorow's Craphound https://craphound.com/ Pluralistic.Net https://pluralistic.net/ Cory Doctorow’s Books on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/stores/Cory-Doctorow/author/B001I9RSKC Cory Doctorow (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow The Social Life Of Information https://www.amazon.com/Social-Life-Information-Seely-Brown/dp/0875847625