It's not your imagination: the internet *suuuucks* now. The enshittification of our digital world isn't the result of great historical forces or iron laws of economics - it's caused by specific policy choices, made in living memory, by named individuals. The bad news is, *everything* is getting enshittified. The good news is: we are not prisoners to the depraved foolishness of early 21st century policymakers. We can - we must - break free of the prison they built for us, consigning their terrible ideas to history's scrapheap so we can create a new, good internet that is fit to serve as the digital nervous system of this fraught century.

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of dozens of books, most recently ENSHITTIFICATION: WHY EVERYTHING SUDDENLY GOT WORSE AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT (nonfiction); and the novels PICKS AND SHOVELS and THE BEZZLE (followups to RED TEAM BLUES). Other notable books include the solarpunk novels WALKAWAY and THE LOST CAUSE; the tech policy books THE INTERNET CON and CHOKEPOINT CAPITALISM; and the internationally bestselling YA LITTLE BROTHER series; and the picture book POESY THE MONSTER SLAYER. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. Doctorow is an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.

Raymond Craib is the Marie Underhill Knoll professor of History at Cornell University. He is especially interested in Latin America and/as global history, critical geography/cartography, the left, and theory and history. Craib’s most recent book is Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age.