Fourteen years ago, Cory Doctorow told me the #Singularity is a progressive apocalypse.

I have not stopped thinking about that phrase since.

We like to imagine the future as one clean break. A line crossed. A god booted up in a server farm. Cory saw something stranger. The end of the world, sold to us as the perfection of the world. Rapture for the people who swapped faith for code.

His sharpest point was about stories. Good #ScienceFiction does not predict the future. It predicts the present. The genre is not a telescope. It is a mirror.

Re-listening in 2026, the reflection is uncomfortable.

The surveillance he warned about is now infrastructure. The platforms he distrusted now mediate almost everything we do. We still treat the internet as a glorified video-on-demand service, and we still pour everything we are onto it anyway.

This is why I chased Cory for two years to get him on the show. Not because he could tell me what was coming, but because he could name what was already here, and what it meant.

Technology is the How. It is never the Why. Cory understood that distinction in his bones, long before it became fashionable to say so.

The full conversation on #Futurism, #AI, activism, and the stories we tell ourselves about machines remains one of my favorites in over 300 interviews.

Watch or listen to the full interview here: [ https://snglrty.co/4n0dHxk](https://snglrty.co/4n0dHxk)

Want to find out why Cory Doctorow thinks the technological singularity is a progressive apocalypse? Watch his Singularity 1 on 1 interview to find out!