‘Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What We Can Do About It’ by Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow “certainly knows how to make an idea memorable,” said in the Financial Times . While not everyone will appreciate his new book’s scatological title, the prolific author, blogger, and internet activist deserves thanks for bloodying the world’s biggest tech companies by succinctly diagnosing how they’re ruining users’ lives. “You could not ask for a clearer, more ambitious, or better-written business book than this one,” all of it expanding on a theory Doctorow put forward three years ago describing a three-step process of “enshittification.” In his view, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and others have become giants by first earning users’ trust. But in stage two, they abuse

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