“Dystopia is now.” Radicalized is a collection of four novellas connected by social, technological, and economic visions of today and what America could be in the near, near future. Cory Doctorow’s characters deal with issues around immigration, corrupt police forces, dark web uprisings and more. Join Cory Doctorow and a panel of Cornell University faculty members for a moderated Q&A about the collection of stories. 

Part of the Milstein Program's M Studio speaker series and is a required event for program first-years and sophomores. Students, please come with your questions in mind! 

This event is part of an A.D. White Professors-at-Large visit and is cosponsored by the Milstein Program and the departments of History and Science & Technology Studies. Doctorow visits both the Ithaca (Sept. 12-18) and Cornell Tech (Sept. 19) campuses in fall 2025 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger. He is the editor of Pluralistic, the author of young adult novels like Little Brother and Homeland and novels for adults like Attack Surface and Walkaway, as well as nonfiction books like How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism. He co-founded the open source peer-to-peer software company OpenCola, and serves on the boards and advisory boards of the Participatory Culture Foundation, the Clarion Foundation, the Open Technology Fund and the Metabrainz Foundation. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. 

Q&A moderated by Roger Moseley (Music, Director of the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity), Ray Craib (History), and Suman Seth (Science and Technology Studies).

Location: Milstein Hall (AAP) Auditorium
Followed by a reception in the MIlstein Dome.

Free & open to the public.