Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future

Hailed by Bruce Sterling as a ¿political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-around Renaissance geek,¿ Cory Doctorow is the web¿s most celebrated high-tech pop-culture maven. Content is the first collection of Doctorow¿s infamous articles, essays, and polemics.

Here¿s why Microsoft should stop treating its customers as criminals (through relentless digital-rights management); how America chose copyright and Happy Meal toys over jobs; why Facebook is taking a faceplant; how Wikipedia is a poor cousin of The Hitchhiker¿s Guide to the Galaxy; and, of course, why free e-books kick ass.

Accessible to geeks and noobs (if you¿re not sure what that means, it¿s you) alike, Content is a must-have compilation from Cory Doctorow, who will be glad to take you along for the ride as he effortlessly surfs the zeitgeist.