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Closing Credits
Cory Doctorow
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It’s Too Late · 2026
Acknowledgements
After, AI After the Bubble
After, Bubbles and Productive Residues
Bubble, Agentic AI and Other Absurdities
Bubble, Absent Indians and Gujarati People Typing
Bubble, Actual, Existing AI
Bubble, What Should Creative Workers Do About AI?
Bubble, AI Has a Labor Issue (Not a Copyright Issue)
Bubble, AI “Art”
Bubble, The Funny Math Gets Dangerous
Before, Really Weird Math
Before, Against Inevitabilism
Before, How We Got Here
Introduction
Dedication
Opening Credits
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It’s Too Late
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It · 2025
Publisher Notes
Acknowledgments
Conclusion: Is Enshittification Just Capitalism?
There’s Bad News and There’s Good News
Restoring Labor
Repealing the Law of “Felony Contempt of Business Model”
The Strange Tale of Beeper Mini
Bringing Back Self‐Help
Administrability
The EU’s Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act
Privacy First
Bringing Back Regulation
Antitrust Under Trump
Antitrust Is Back, Baby
Part Four: The Cure
Rent Seeking and Technofeudalism
The Google Walkouts, Tech Solidarity, and Tech Unions
Tech Rights Are Worker Rights: Para and Tuyul Apps
The End of Labor Power
The End of Self‐Help
Twiddling
Reverse‐Centaurs and Chickenization
It’s Not Wage Theft If We Do It With an App: Uber’s Algorithmic Wage Discrimination
“With an App”
The Death of Competition Kills Regulation, Too
The End of Competion, Part 2
The End of Competion, Part 1
Part Three: The Epidemiology