@mallory - I can't listen to the podcast without creating an account with Apple, which would open me to even more grotesque digital surveillance. (And without an iphone I probably can't even create an account anyway.) Bad, bad, walled garden. irony with respect to rebuilding social media that this should come from the head of an advocate for open future for social networks... Or maybe you were preaching to the unconverted, the Applefied.

@petep44 add "Guaranteed Employment at prevailing Union wages"

@SharonMcC Margaret Atwood (eg. "Oryx and Crake", "Handmaid's Tale" )

@GiddingsMJ
I love Cory Doctorow's work!

@timnitGebru
Isaac Asimov wrote a short story in the 50's about a future in which all the scientists focused on building the worlds most powerful computer, and when they finished they asked it, "Is there a God?" and it answered, "Now there is."
In John Brunner's 1968 science fiction novel Stand on Zanzibar there is a powerful computer named Shalmaneezer that is part of popular culture and is often jeered at, but with a tinge of resentment at its influence on government and business.

@franklinlopez
read everything by William Gibson. His latest trio, starting with The Peripheral is a provocative extrapolation of quantum tunneling into the multiverse plus what happens to good ol' boys who go into the military and get outfitted with neural interfaced haptic technology. Also, I finally got around to reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series, which is kinda old (90's) but amazingly and brilliantly anarchist! One character is based on Soviet anarchist Alexander Bogdanov.