{"id":2658,"date":"2020-12-07T20:16:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T02:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lfs.org\/blog\/?post_type=aiovg_videos&p=2658"},"modified":"2020-12-07T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T03:13:00","slug":"cory-doctorow-on-freedom-and-the-information-society-ramez-naam-on-the-war-on-drugs-and-war-on-terror-and-their-acceptance-speeches-at-the-london-worldcon-2014-prometheus-awards-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"aiovg_videos","link":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/aiovg_videos\/cory-doctorow-on-freedom-and-the-information-society-ramez-naam-on-the-war-on-drugs-and-war-on-terror-and-their-acceptance-speeches-at-the-london-worldcon-2014-prometheus-awards-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Cory Doctorow on freedom and the information society, Ramez Naam on the War on drugs and War on terror, and their acceptance speeches at the London Worldcon 2014 Prometheus Awards ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

Excerpts from the Prometheus Awards Worldcon ceremony:
\nFrom Cory<\/strong>\u00a0Doctorow\u2019s speech:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cThis is an extremely prestigious prize that I value very highly…<\/p>\n

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Cory Doctorow (Creative Commons license)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Does information want to be free? It\u2019s certainly true that people want to be free… and you can\u2019t live in an information society and be free without free information.\u201d<\/p>\n

From\u00a0Naam\u2019s speech:
\n<\/strong>\u201cI also wrote\u00a0Nexus\u00a0<\/em>because I was concerned about the abrogation of freedom in my country and throughout developed countries in the name of the War on drugs and the War on terror.<\/p>\n

And that abrogation continues… Now I want to be clear, I\u2019m an optimist. I believe that in the long run, humanity has become more free, that we have more freedom than we had generations ago and we have more capability than we had a few generations ago, and technology has played an important part of that.<\/p>\n

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Ramez Naam (Creative Commons license)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But that increase in freedom has not been homogenous…<\/p>\n

There are places in the world that have become less free and technology is playing a role in that through certain forms of surveillance and totalitarianism.<\/p>\n

I believe in the long run we will find ways to use technology to enhance our freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the London Worldcon in August 2014 in England, emcee Amy Sturgis presented the Best Novel award to Prometheus Award Best Novel co-winners Cory Doctorow (for Homeland) and Ramez Naam (for Nexus). Each author spoke about threats to liberty, from constraints on the information society to the War on drugs and War on terror.
\nThe Prometheus Hall of Fame award for Best Classic Fiction went to Lois McMaster Bujold\u2019s novel Falling Free. Sturges read Bujold’s acceptance statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","aiovg_categories":[],"aiovg_tags":[],"class_list":["post-2658","aiovg_videos","type-aiovg_videos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_videos\/2658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_videos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/aiovg_videos"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"aiovg_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"aiovg_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}