“When they only take into account those they consider as such,” he adds. You are complicating things for all those straight, white, rich men, the usual elites, who are still behind everything that we consider the world today,” says Doctorow, who recalls - via video call from his home in Los Angeles - that it is the mechanisms of the system that end up deciding, for example, what is and what is not a family. Somehow, with a name like that, you’re hacking the system. “The longer your name is, the more untraceable you become. If his daughter’s name - Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow - is almost as interminable as that of the protagonist of his latest novel, the powerful dystopian Walkaway (Tor Books) - a sumptuous mix of Bret Easton Ellis, Douglas Coupland and Dave Eggers - it is because he wants to be able to throw data collectors off the scent as much as possible. It is imposing a default reality, trying to reimpose that which is being fought against while keeping us entertained,” he says. “There may be changes in the world, but, in the background, there is a current that we don’t control. “We are not free, and we don’t know it,” says the writer, for whom Mark Zuckerberg and his virtual conglomerate - his budding metaverse - tramples relentlessly over a new kind of human right that is not talked about enough. Cory Doctorow, science fiction writer, “zuckervegan” and digital rights activist, can’t believe that the rest of the world lives as if it is not just a collection of data being bought and sold behind its back all the time.
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