Niles Singer/Harvard Staff Photographer Science & Tech Digital life doesn’t have to be this way Writer, activist Cory Doctorow wants you to be mad about tech monopoly — but not blindly terrified of AI Max Larkin Harvard Staff Writer October 1, 2026 5 min read Cory Doctorow wants you to know it doesn’t have to be this way. At a discussion Wednesday night moderated by Elizabeth Mynatt, dean of Northeastern’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences, the Canadian-British writer and activist addressed a friendly room at the Berkman Klein Center. Doctorow has been a longtime comrade in the fight for an open, safe, and humanistic internet for which the center was founded 30 years ago.But he also belong...