As many of you know, Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing editor, and sci-fi author, among other things) was at SFU today to give a talk. As it happened, it was under the guise of the Leonardo lecture series which is run by the Faculty of Applied Science.
As a Boing Boing fan, I poked around a little and found out Barry Shell was organizing it. I asked him about it, and he invited me to come to a small session with grad students earlier in the day. When I went to that, I managed to get myself invited to lunch afterwards. So, I had lunch with Cary Doctorow a few other people.
Long story short, Cory’s cool. His interests are in the technology, society, copyright, privacy, freedom spectrum. A lot of people in that world can be a little intense: prone to conspiracy theories and rants. Cory was very thoughtful and knows an insane amount about this stuff. He has also been directly involved in an amazing amount of technology policy (and just won the EFF Pioneer Award).
Basically, I have a platonic crush on Cory Doctorow.
Plus, it can’t hurt to have a little face time with my dean (who was at the lunch). Good day overall.
March 11th, 2007 at 10:49 am
Cory’s speech at SFU is posted online on this page:
http://www.ecoshock.org/DNgreens.html
I recorded it for CFRO radio.
Alex Smith