I like following Cory Doctorow online and I think he has a lot of interesting things to say about technology, privacy, copyright, and similar topics. These stories, however, are just not that compelling. They are highly didactic and very plot-driven, with character development being a real afterthought. Kind of the opposite of what I normally expect from short stories. Each story revolves around a major U.S. political or cultural theme (surveillance capitalism, racism, healthcare "access", income inequality/survivalism) with a lot of lecturing towards dear reader. Maybe more subtlety could have worked, it just doesn't seem like he trusts us enough to get the themes on our own. Of the four stories I think I would recommend one (the first).