Who the hell is Cory Doctorow?

The ACT Lab workshop this Friday is FULL – all 60 spots spoken for. It’s sort of cool that people are interested. I was afraid we’d be bribing our friends just to fill a few seats…

There’s another cool event to pencil in your datebook (or type into ical – I’ve just started using it; gawd I’m behind the times). On Thursday March 8, Cory Doctorow will deliver the 2007 SFU Applied Sciences Leonardo Lecture. Even the name is cool: “The Totalitarian Urge: Total Information Awareness and the Cosmic Billiards.”

If you do not know of Doctorow, let me authoritatively state (right from the press release) that he is an iconoclast of the blogosphere. I can say with all honesty and no jealousy that to have the number one blog on the planet (BoingBoing – don’t feel bad, I didn’t know either) is nothing short of damn amazing. Apparently two million peeps read his blog every day.

Forbes magazine describes Doctorow as “a triple threat”: 1. He’s a prominent activist for digital rights; 2. He currently holds the Canada-US Fulbright chair at the University of Southern California’s Center on Public Diplomacy; and 3. He’s an award-winning science fiction writer who gives away all his books via download from his website, craphound.com.

Goddamn, is all I can say. But if you wanna hear what he has to say, this Tdot-born, 35-year-old over-achiever, check out his talk:

Thursday, March 8, 6:00pm
SFU Harbour Centre
(Fletcher Challenge Theatre)

Reservations are required: 604-291-5100 (there are only about 50 seats left). I bet this will be standing room only; I’m getting there early and I might fight you for a seat.

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