Digital Futures and Information Crises
Cory Doctorow, Naomi Alderman and Oliver Moody explore the internet’s decline, lessons from past information crises and Estonia’s digital transformation, with Tom Sutcliffe.
Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the digital age and its discontents. Tech critic Cory Doctorow introduces his new book Enshittification, a blistering diagnosis of how online platforms have decayed — from innovation to exploitation — and what we can do to reclaim the internet. Novelist and broadcaster Naomi Alderman draws on history in Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today, arguing that we’ve lived through information crises before, and that lessons from the invention of writing and the printing press can help us navigate today’s digital turbulence. Journalist Oliver Moody, the author of Baltic: The Future of Europe, discusses Estonia’s radical embrace of digital governance, and what it reveals about the possibilities — and limits — of a truly connected state.
Producer: Katy Hickman
Assistant Producer: Natalia Fernandez
On radio
Broadcasts
- Mon 17 Nov 2025 09:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
- Mon 17 Nov 2025 21:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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