Keynote Address - Cory Doctorow

Presented at The Eleventh HOPE (2016), July 23, 2016, 1 p.m. (90 minutes)

We are so stoked to have <a href="https://xi.hope.net/speakers.html#Cory Doctorow">Cory Doctorow</a> as our keynote this year. We've been trying to get the stars to align for many HOPEs, and this time they did. But we're glad we waited until now, since so much has happened in the past few years that Cory has been on top of - Snowden, Manning, privacy, copyright issues, surveillance - and his talk will no doubt open your eyes even more. As co-editor of <em>Boing Boing,</em> special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and a vocal proponent of changing our copyright laws, Cory really has a lot of super-important and relevant thoughts to share with our HOPE audience.

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  • Cory Doctorow
    Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction novelist, blogger, and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, Wired, and many other newspapers, magazines, and websites. (He even wrote an article for 2600 under a different name many years ago!) He is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), you know, those superheroes who defend freedom in cyberspace on a daily basis. His two latest books are In Real Life, a young adult graphic novel created with Jen Wang (2014); and Information Doesn't Want to Be Free, a business book about creativity in the Internet age (2014). His latest young adult novel is Homeland, the best-selling sequel to 2008's wildly popular Little Brother. His latest novel for adults is Rapture of the Nerds, written with Charles Stross and published in 2012. His latest short story collection is With a Little Help, available in paperback, ebook, audiobook, and limited edition hardcover.

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