Just as importantly: we have to stop amplifying tech bosses’ chosen narratives about their products’ destructive potential, because this helps them raise more money and do more terrible things. Bernie Sanders needs to stop insisting that the US government should own 50% of the money-losingest corporations the world has ever seen and start talking about how they will not get a government bailout when their investment bubble bursts.
Doctorow really writes like a poet, doesn’t he?
I read “Down and out in the Magic Kingdom” and found it pretty lackluster, he has definitely grown as a writer since then.