The Lane Non-Fiction Book Club - October
Location
The Lane Bookshop
About
Join our Non-Fiction book club for our monthly discussion of titles from across the non-fiction spectrum. In October, we're discussing Enshittification by Cory Doctorow.
šļø Thursday 15th October
š Doors 5:30pm, Discussion 6pm
š The Lane Bookshop
š« Tickets: $10 including wine and nibbles
Please note, this is not an author talk.
ABOUT THE BOOK
*** Longlist for the FT and Schroder Business Book of the Year 2025 ***
Enshittification is not a technical glitch. It is a technique that every platform - from X to TikTok, Amazon to Apple, has adopted. First they lure users onto their platforms, then attract businesses who might profit from this newly formed public, and then finally squeeze both for their own profit. Tech giants lure users in with convenience and then degrade their services over time, draining profit at the cost of user experience. In the meantime, our public squares have turned somewhere between the mall and a dumpster fire, that is unfit to deal with the problems of our times.
What is to be done? Like a surgeon, Doctorow sets out the symptoms, the diagnosis and the cure to these metastasizing platforms. We need to question the monopolies that dominate so much of our online lives, we must demand regulation and our privacy back, allow for interoperability, and win tech workers' rights.
šļø Thursday 15th October
š Doors 5:30pm, Discussion 6pm
š The Lane Bookshop
š« Tickets: $10 including wine and nibbles
Please note, this is not an author talk.
ABOUT THE BOOK
*** Longlist for the FT and Schroder Business Book of the Year 2025 ***
Enshittification is not a technical glitch. It is a technique that every platform - from X to TikTok, Amazon to Apple, has adopted. First they lure users onto their platforms, then attract businesses who might profit from this newly formed public, and then finally squeeze both for their own profit. Tech giants lure users in with convenience and then degrade their services over time, draining profit at the cost of user experience. In the meantime, our public squares have turned somewhere between the mall and a dumpster fire, that is unfit to deal with the problems of our times.
What is to be done? Like a surgeon, Doctorow sets out the symptoms, the diagnosis and the cure to these metastasizing platforms. We need to question the monopolies that dominate so much of our online lives, we must demand regulation and our privacy back, allow for interoperability, and win tech workers' rights.