About this episode

Cory Doctorow joins to discuss the EU's digital sovereignty plans and the potential for positive change in technology.

As the EU publishes its digital sovereignty plans, we've come up with a little techno-utopian package of our own. Our guest throughout is tech and solar-punk author Cory Doctorow: join us as we explore French AIs, Finish super-computers, Croatian Wikipedia and all the reasons why this might just be the moment in which things start to change for the better.

People in this episode

Guest: Cory Doctorow

Topics covered

• digital sovereignty
• technology
• AI
• super-computers
• Wikipedia
• change

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: EU

Places: France, Finland, Croatia

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