Author Cory Doctorow comes to the Comox Valley

Published 10:07 am Monday, October 26, 2026 By Contributed The Sid Williams Theatre Society proudly presents Cory Doctorow Talks Enshittification on Nov. 10. The globally renowned author, journalist, and technology activist will visit the Sid for a talk mostly focused on the topic of a recent book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It .

The speaking engagement will also include an opportunity for questions from the audience. A New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2026 Locus Award for Nonfiction, Enshittification explores how Big Tech has gradually made the internet worse in the pursuit of profit. Doctorow breaks down how companies have taken advantage of users and businesses, examines the decisions that led us here, and offers ideas for building a better internet.

Disenshittify, if you will. Doctorow is the author of dozens of books, both non-fiction and fiction (specifically science fiction). His most recent non-fiction book The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How To Think About Artificial Intelligence – Before It’s Too Late was released in June.

Doctorow is a special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. Born in Toronto, he now divides his time between London and Los Angeles. Doctorow holds an honourary doctorate in laws from York University (Canada) and an honourary doctorate in computer science from the Open University (UK), where he is a Visiting Professor; he is also a Cornell University AD White professor-at-large, a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, and a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science.

In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. Doctorow earned the Sir Arthur Clark Imagination in Service to Society Awardee for lifetime achievement and in 2024 the Media Ecology Association awarded him the Neil Postman Award for Caree Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity.

Don’t miss Cory Doctorow Talks Enshittification on Nov. 10 at the Sid Williams Theatre. Tickets for the talk are $59 (including all taxes and fees) and are available online at sidwilliamstheatre.com and through the Sid Williams Theatre box office.