The Coming War on General Computation (2011)
Cory Doctorow delivered a speech titled 'The Coming War on General Computation' at the 2011 Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. The talk was transcribed by Joshua Wise and published on Wikisource with a note that disfluencies were removed for clarity. Doctorow opened by apologizing for his fast speaking pace and clarifying that the presentation would not focus on copyright issues.
- ▪The speech was given at the 28C3 Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin on December 26, 2011.
- ▪The text is a transcription by Joshua Wise that aims to be faithful to the original while removing disfluencies.
- ▪Doctorow acknowledged his tendency to speak quickly, referencing his reputation as a challenge for simultaneous translators.
- ▪The author explicitly stated that the talk is not about copyright, despite his frequent discussions on that topic.
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| Publication time | Sun, 13 Sep 2026 23:54:55 +0000 |
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