Virtual Worlds and their discontents who will refuse to enter the matrix and why

Cory Doctorow is coeditor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (www.boingboing.net), which receives more than three million visitors a month. He is also a contributor to Guardian, Locus, and Publishers Weekly. His science fiction writing has garnered numerous awards, and his young adult novel Little Brother was a New York Times bestseller. A forthcoming book, Rapture of the Nerds, an adult novel co-written with Charles Stross, is due out next fall. Doctorow was named one of the Web´s 15 influencers by Forbes magazine and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.